GEOLOGICA BELGICA (2006) 9/1-2: 203-213 DISUSED PALEOGENE REGIONAL STAGES FROM BELGIUM: MONTIAN, HEERSIAN, LANDENIAN, PANISELIAN, BRUXELLIAN, LAEKENIAN, LEDIAN, WEMMELIAN AND TONGRIAN Geert DE GEYTER1, Ellen DE MAN2, Jacques HERMAN3, Patric JACOBS4, Thierry MOORKENS5, Etienne STEURBAUT6 & Noël VANDENBERGHE7 (1 fi gure) 1. Geological Survey of Belgium, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Jennerstraat 13, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium; E-mail:
[email protected]. 2. Geological Survey of Belgium, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium; E-mail:
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[email protected]. ABSTRACT. An overview of nine disused Paleogene regional stages from Belgium is presented. Some of these re- gional chronostratigraphic units were already brought into use in the nineteenth century, but are nowadays considered ill defi ned and of no use in the light of the modern stratigraphic concepts. An overview of their defi nition and history is given, together with the argumentation for the abandonment of each unit and its present status. S e disused chro- nostratigraphic units belong to the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene series.