Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 11.1° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Middle Volgian zone, Pernaryggen Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• M13/43 bed
•see Birkelund et al. 1984. Gronlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; burrowed 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 1199: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 27.03.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pseudomelania sp. Pictet and Campiche 1862 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Eriphyla saemanni clam | |
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle | |
Corbicellopsis sp. Cox 1929 clam | |
Isocyprina carinella clam
Hartwellia sp. Kitchin 1926 clam | |
Thracia depressa Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Goniomya literata Sowerby 1819 clam | |
Modiolus elongatus mussel
Modiolus czekanowskii mussel | |
Isognomon volaticum oyster | |
Pinna lanceolata Sowerby 1821 oyster | |
Camptonectes praecinctus scallop
Camptonectes morini scallop | |
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop | |
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop | |
"Limatula consobrina" = Lima (Limatula) consobrina
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Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop | |
Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam | |
Lingulata | |
Sedentaria | |
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Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833 |