West of Lakse Elv, Bed 2a (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 5.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cape Stewart Beds Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• "Charmouthian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous sandstone

• coarse, dark-grey to lighter-grey calcaerous arkose-sandstone with numerous Entolium frontale and other scattered, well-preserved fossils

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in September, 1926

• Repository: (presumed) University of Coppenhagen

Primary reference: A. Rosenkrantz. 1934. The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part 1. Meddelelser Om Gronland 110(1):4-122 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161970: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 16.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Grandirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Grandirhynchia n. sp.
Tetrarhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Tetrarhynchia sp. A
Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana zieteni Brauns 1871 pointed nut clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis Dumortier 1869 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam
Tancredia n. sp. A
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium phillipianum cockle
Cardium (Jurassicardium?) phillipianum
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus, Chlamys substriata
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835 scallop
Chlamys substriata rinki
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp., "Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
Oxytoma n. sp.
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium callosum Lundgren 1895 scallop
 Ichnofossils -
"Ophiomorpha" sp. Lundgren 1891