Kambsgja (Tjornes Horizon 18): Pleistocene, Iceland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
6 individuals
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806
2 individuals
Nassarius tjornesensis
5 individuals
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Bela decussata (Couthouy 1839)
5 individuals
recombined as Curtitoma decussata
subspecies tjornesensis
Bela borealis (Reeve 1846)
34 individuals
synonym of Curtitoma decussata
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Bela plicifera
2 individuals
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Admete viridula (Fabricius 1780)
2 individuals
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
6 individuals
Natica clausa Broderip and Sowerby 1829
2 individuals
synonym of Cryptonatica affinis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Pygocardia rustica (Sowerby 1818)
4.5 individuals
Arctica islandica (Linnaeus 1767)
2.5 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma praetenuis (Leathes in Woodward 1830)
1.5 individuals
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Cyrtodaria angusta Nyst and Westendorp 1839
6.5 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816
1 individual
Astarte crenata (Gray 1824)
1 individual
subspecies crenata
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 18 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:79979
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:K. Bulinski
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-31 13:35:42 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-03-31 13:35:41
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]