Where: Denmark (55.3° N, 12.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 10.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Danish White Chalk Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Maastrichtian-Danian boundary
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, hardground limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67343: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.11.2006, edited by David Nicholson, Mihaela Krause and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Isis sp.1 Linnaeus 1758 | |
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Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1835 | |
Brachiopoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) velledaeforme Schluter 1872 ammonite | |
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Baculites vertebralis Lamarck 1801 ammonite | |
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite
Phylloptychoceras (Phylloptychoceras) sp. Spath 1953 ammonite | |
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite | |
Reptilia | |
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Thalassinoides sp.1 Ehrenberg 1944
Zoophycos sp.1 Massalongo 1855 |