Hallbjarnastaoakambur (Tjornes Horizon 17): Pleistocene, Iceland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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19 individuals | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Solariellidae
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Solariella sp.
Wood 1842
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4 individuals | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Buccinum undatum
Linnaeus 1758
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4 individuals | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Nassarius tjornesensis
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2 individuals | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Columbella alba
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9 individuals | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Bela scalaris
(Möller 1842)
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2 individuals | ||||||
recombined as Propebela scalaris | |||||||
Bela borealis
(Reeve 1846)
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49 individuals | ||||||
synonym of Curtitoma decussata | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mangeliidae
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Bela plicifera
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2 individuals | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Admete viridula
(Fabricius 1780)
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4 individuals | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys (Chlamys) tjornesensis
MacNeil 1967
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MacNeil 1967 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya schwarzbachi
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7 individuals | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Lentidium complanatum
(Lamarck 1822)
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2 individuals | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Pygocardia rustica
(Sowerby 1818)
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5 individuals | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Serripes groenlandicus
Mohr 1786
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28 individuals | ||||||
recombined as Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma sp.
Leach 1819
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13 individuals | ||||||
Macoma praetenuis
(Leathes in Woodward 1830)
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6 individuals | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Cyrtodaria angusta
Nyst and Westendorp 1839
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5 individuals | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana minuta
(Müller 1776)
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2 individuals | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Iceland |
Coordinates: | 66.2° North, 17.2° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 66.2° North, 17.1° West |
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Horizon 17 within the Serripes Zone of the Tjornes Sequence in Bardarson's Horizons. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Geology comments: Deposits probably formed in very shallow water. They are most likely intertidal swash zone deposits or subtidal channel deposits. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk |
Rock censused: | 1 kg |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Collection method comments: Samples of 2-3kg were taken in Baroarson's horizons. Quantitative mollusc analyses were carried out on about 1kg of each sample by picking apart the material. |
Metadata
Database number: | 79894 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller, W. Kiessling | Enterer: | K. Bulinski, M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2008-03-26 08:12:21 | Last modified: | 2008-03-26 10:12:21 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-26 08:12:21 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
26591. | P. E. P. Norton. 1975. Unpublished census data for the Mollusca of the Tjornes sequence, Iceland. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
62716 | F. S. MacNeil. 1967. Cenozoic Pectinids of Alaska, Iceland, and Other Northern Regions. Geological survey professional paper [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |