Milne Land M20/17 (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. : Gronlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, 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 Unpublished data.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 1460: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 30.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• ammonites and belemnites counted but not identified
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
ammonites
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
belemnites
Gastropoda
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania sp. Pictet and Campiche 1862 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia mosquensis White 1885 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis radiata Phillips 1829 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Heteroconchia -
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam
"shallow burrowing heterodont"
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884 clam
"burr. heterodont (A)"
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa Sowerby 1823 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882 clam
"large isocyprina"
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Corbicellopsis sp. Cox 1929 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Boreiothyrididae
Taimyrothyris sp. Dagys 1968
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula intestinalis Gmelin 1791
(Cycloserpula)