Eriksdal, Skåne, VC7 bed (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Also known as Vitabäck

Where: Skåne, Sweden (55.6° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 20.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vitaback Clays Member (Annero Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• Bed VC7

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; claystone

• mesohaline conditions, and the sediments may originate from a lagoonal setting

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. Schwarz-Wings, J. Rees, and J. Lindgren. 2009. Lower Cretaceous Mesoeucrocodylians from Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden). Cretaceous Research 30:1345-1355 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 118042: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 04.10.2011, edited by Roger Benson and Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata -
Mesoeucrocodylia indet.
Mesoeucrocodylia indet. Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 crocodilian
Teeth and osteoderms (LO: Department of Geology, Lund University)
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet.
Albanerpetontidae indet. Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
LO8606t-LO8607t (orbital margin fragments), LO8608t-LO86010t (maxilla), LO8611-LO8612 (dentaries)