Milne Land M22/21 (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 11.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Volgian zone, Pernaryggen Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1407: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 10.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• ammonites counted but not identified
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula intestinalis Gmelin 1791
(Cycloserpula)
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Boreiothyrididae
Taimyrothyris sp. Dagys 1968
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus bipartitus Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Cardiidia -
"Pholadomyoida indet." = Pholadomyida
"Pholadomyoida indet." = Pholadomyida Newell 1965 clam
deep burrowing pholadomyacean
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya literata Sowerby 1819 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
ammonites