Stevns Klint, Danish White Chalk, Storstrom (Cretaceous of Denmark)

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Alcyonacea - Isididae
Isis sp.1 Linnaeus 1758
 Gorgonacea -
Moltkia minuta1 Nielsen 1918 gorgonian
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia sp.1 Lamarck 1801 stony coral
"Parasmilia excavata" = Desmophyllum excavatum1 Hagenow 1839 stony coral
Parasmilia cylindrica1 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet.1 Rafinesque 1835
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.1 lamp shell
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 clam
Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Anapachydiscus terminus3 Ward and Kennedy 1993 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites vertebralis Lamarck 1801 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite
Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Cheloniidae indet.2 Bonaparte 1832 sea turtle
MGUH 29128
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp.1 Ehrenberg 1944
Zoophycos sp.1 Massalongo 1855