Milne Land M13/5 (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)

• M 13/5 bed

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; bioturbated, glauconitic 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 1262: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 28.03.1999

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Taxonomic list

• ammonites counted but not identified
unclassified
  -
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
new species
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya literata Sowerby 1819 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854 clam
originally entered as "Quenstedia sp."
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma "sp. A" Sowerby 1814 file clam
sp. A
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis radiata Phillips 1829 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia rugosa Fischer 1837 scallop
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
"(Dorsopl.)" ammonites
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Bullinidae
 Ichnofossils -
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
Curvolithus sp. Fritsch 1908