Milne Land M4/19 (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Middle Volgian zone, Astartedal Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• M 4/19 bed

•see Birkelund, T. et al. 1984. Gronlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; burrowed sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

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 1232: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 28.03.1999

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Taxonomic list

• belemnites and ammonites counted but not identified
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa Sowerby 1823 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
originally entered as "Protocordia striatula"
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Glypheidae
Glyphea sp. Von Meyer 1835 decapod
 Ichnofossils -
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840