Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 11.2° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pernaryggen Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)
• M8/8 bed
•see Birkelund et al. 1984: Gronlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic, gray, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace, original calcite, replaced with calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich and D. K. Pandey. 1999. Genesis and environmental significance of Upper Cretaceous shell concentrations from the Cauvery Basin, southern India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 145(1):119-139(21) [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 1197: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 27.03.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Taimyrothyris sp. Dagys 1968 | |
Bivalvia | |
Astarte (Astarte) sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
Grammatodon keyserlingii d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster
Liostrea plastica oyster | |
Isognomon volaticum oyster | |
Camptonectes morini scallop
Camptonectes praecinctus scallop | |
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop | |
Plagiostoma incrassatum file clam | |
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop | |
Modiolus czekanowskii mussel | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpula (Cycloserpula) intestinalis Gmelin 1791 |