Hillerslev, Danish White Chalk, Viborg (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (57.0° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° N, 7.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Danish White Chalk Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• chalk

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 67404: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras cf. tenuisulcatum Forbes 1846 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Hoploscaphites tenuistriatus Kner 1848 ammonite
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Saghalinites wrighti Birkelund 1965 ammonite
Anagaudryceras lueneburgense Schluter 1872 ammonite