Milne Land M1/f (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, Krebsedal Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• M 1/f bed

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; bioturbated 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 1218: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 28.03.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis radiata Phillips 1829 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa Sowerby 1823 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Hartwellia sp. Kitchin 1926 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Boreiothyrididae
Taimyrothyris sp. Dagys 1968
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula intestinalis Gmelin 1791
subgenus Cycloserpula
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944