Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 11.1° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Lower-Middle Volgian zone, Krebsedal Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• M20/9 bed
•see Birkelund et al. 1984, Gronlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 1204: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 27.03.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Lingulata | |
Bivalvia | |
Hartwellia borealis clam | |
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
Pleuromya uralensis clam | |
Nicaniella sp. Chavan 1945 clam | |
Isognomon volaticum oyster | |
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop | |
Plagiostoma incrassata file clam | |
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop | |
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
Camptonectes morini scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
Brachytrema sp. Morris and Lycett 1851 snail |