Milne Land M15/15 (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Volgian zone, Pernaryggen Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• see Birkelund, T. et al. 1984: Gronlands geol. Undersog. 147

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, burrowed, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1478: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 05.05.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• ammonites counted but not identified
unclassified
  -
Turritella aff. molarium
originally entered as "Turritella aff. molarium"
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Boreiothyrididae
Taimyrothyris sp. Dagys 1968
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
ammonites
Gastropoda
 Neritoina - Neritopsidae
Neritopsis sp. Grateloup 1832 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon keyserlingii d'Orbigny 1850 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Ichnofossils -