Milne Land M11/18a (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 11/18a bed

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; 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 1250: 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
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
ammonites
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828 clam
"Lucinid sp."
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Delphinula sp." = Angaria
"Delphinula sp." = Angaria Röding 1798 snail
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell