Where: Scania, Sweden (59.3° N, 18.1° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 23.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vitaback Clay Member (Annero Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• The lowermost parts of the section (beds VC1 and VC2) contained spores of the genus Cicatricosisporites, previously known only from the Early Cretaceous (V. Vajda pers.comm.). Thus, the whole section described in this work is considered to be Berriasian or possibly younger, although the lower parts of the VitabaÈ ck Clays, not treated here, are likely to be Tithonian (ErlstroÈm et al. 1991). Berriasian age is further indicated by the composition of the shark fauna, which is very similar to that of Berriasian sediments within the Purbeck Group in southern England (Underwood & Rees 2002).

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified claystone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Rees. 2002. Shark fauna and depositional environment of the earliest Cretaceous Vitabäck Clays at Eriksdal, southern Sweden. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 93:59-71 [M. Bell/M. Bell/M. Bell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144784: authorized by Mark Bell, entered by Mark Bell on 17.05.2013

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