Milne Land M40/3 (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 11.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Oxfordian zone, Aldinger Elv Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified 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 Unpublished data.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 1465: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 30.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
(Cycloserpula)
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arctica syssollae clam
originally entered as "Artica syssollae"
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina lirata Phillips 1829 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Anomalodesmata -
 Pterioida -
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus strajeskianus d'Orbigny 1845 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes broenlundi Ravn 1911 scallop
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae