Milne Land M20/7 (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; unlithified, bioturbated, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace, 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 Unpublished data.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 1462: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 30.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• ammonite counted but not identified
unclassified
  -
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa Sowerby 1823 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte aff. veneris clam
originally entered as "Astarte aff. veneris"
 Ichnofossils -