Milne Land M15/17 (Jurassic of Greenland)

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

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace, concretion, original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1477: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 05.05.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• ammonites counted but not identified
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula intestinalis Gmelin 1791
(Cycloserpula)
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
ammonites
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
(Strimodiolus)
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
 Ichnofossils -