Arnager Greensand Formation, Stampe A area, Bornholm (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (55.1° N, 14.7° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Arnager Greensand Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• 'Inocermid fauna of the basal part of the greensand... the Arnager Greensand s. str. can be referred to the lower Middle Cenomanian on ammonite and inoceramid bivalve evidences... on foraminiferal evidence, the basal 5 m of the greensand is from the Lower Cenomanian'; the inocermids where derived from an 'indurated bed in the basal part of the Arnagar Greensand'

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, bioturbated, glauconitic sandstone

• classification based on high bioturbation
• 'poorly sorted, glauconitic quartz sand... the greensand is unconsolidated except for a few cemented beds in the basal part and is heavily bioturbated.'

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Museum repositories: MGUH and GM

Primary reference: K.-A. Tröger and W. K. Christensen. 1991. Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Santonian) inoceramid bivalve faunas from the island of Bornholm, Denmark. Geological Survey of Denmark, DGU Series A (28)1-47 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70005: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

• Focus on inoceramids.
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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus schoendorfi, Inoceramus crippsi
Inoceramus crippsi Mantell 1822 clam