Milne Land M1/14 (Jurassic of Greenland)

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)

• see Birkelund et al. 1984: Gonlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic sandstone

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 1207: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 28.03.1999

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Taxonomic list

• ammonite counted but not identified
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea plastica oyster
originally entered as "Liostrae plastica"
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Boreiothyrididae
Taimyrothyris sp. Dagys 1968
 Ichnofossils -
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
ichnofossil