Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 11.1° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Middle Volgian zone, Pernaryggen Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• M 2/5 bed
•see Birkelund, T. et al. 1984. Gronlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; 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 1233: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 28.03.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculoma variablis nut clam | |
Mesosaccella choroschowensis pointed nut clam | |
Camptonectes morini scallop | |
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop | |
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop | |
Pinna lanceolota oyster | |
"Pholadomyoida indet." = Pholadomyida
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Thracia depressa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam | |
Eriphyla saemanni clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Neritopsis sp. Grateloup 1832 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Thalassinoides suevicus Rieth 1932
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840 |