Quartarnary, Present-2.588 Ma
The youngest period of the Cenozoic, comprehending the Holocene of our time and the Pleistocene, known for the ice-ages and the Woolly mammoths.
Sub-recent, fossil animals,
Mammalia
Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann, 1780) Muskox
Bison bonasus (Linnaeus, 1758) European bison (Bison priscus?)
Equus Linnaeus, 1758
Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758
Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758
Pisces
Silurus glanis Burton, 1836
Plants
Aves
The Rupelriver still runs trough a part of the land which was the Vlaamse vallei, meandering rivers deposited Pleistocene sands, today an occassional find can be made, Woolly Rhino, Mammoth etc.
Sometimes difficult to assess, this tooth makes a good example, experts have seen it and it might be wolf, lion, bear or jaguar, since it was found ex-situ, it's guessing at the ageperiod and species.
Above picture, part of the land that is under influence of the tidalchange, these are often called 'Broek'.
10.000 year old, eroded duneformations in Lokeren, Oost-Vlaanderen.
In the summertime, these places under the influence of the tidalchanges become very lush and dense.
Stone objects made by man can be found in Doel and kieldrecht.
There have been finds ranging over the Paleolithicum, Mesolithicum to the Neolithicum and onwards.
Recent discoveries in Vrasene, Oost-Vlaanderen puts the Neanderthaler on the map in this part of Belgium.
Schelderiver, lowtide