Where: Greenland (74.5° N, 20.1° W: paleocoordinates 58.5° N, 12.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rodryggen Member (Palnatokes Bjerg Formation), Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)
• Rodryggen Member is 3 m thick.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Alsen and J. Mutterlose. 2009. The Early Cretaceous of north-east Greenland: a crossroads of belemnite migration. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 280:168-182 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97568: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Buchia sp. Rouillier 1845 scallop | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |