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 11/18b bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; bioturbated 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 1251: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 28.03.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
| |
Bivalvia | |
Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam | |
Mesosaccella choroschowensis pointed nut clam | |
| |
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
| |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833 |