Bjerre, Danish White Chalk, Viborg: Maastrichtian, Denmark

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Saghalinites sp. n. sp. Wright and Matsumoto 1954
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Anapachydiscus aff. fresvillensis (Seunes 1890)
1 individual
    = Anapachydiscus terminus Ward and Kennedy 1993
Ward and Kennedy 1993
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites vertebralis Lamarck 1801
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Diplomoceras cylindraceum (Defrance 1816)
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Hoploscaphites constrictus (Sowerby 1817)
see common names

Geography
Country:Denmark
Coordinates: 57.1° North, 8.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.4° North, 7.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Danish White Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: chalk
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:67409
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Clapham Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Clapham
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-11-20 00:22:05 Last modified:2006-11-20 03:46:01
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-20 00:22:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19220. T. Birkelund. 1993. Ammonites from the Maastrichtian White Chalk of Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 40(1-2):33-81 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

61188 P. D. Ward and W. J. Kennedy. 1993. Maastrichtian ammonites from the Biscay region (France, Spain). The Paleontological Society Memoir 34:1-58 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]