Milne Land M28/10 (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: tenuiserratum zone, Kosmocerasdal 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: offshore; lithified, 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 Unpublished data.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 1471: 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
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya literata Sowerby 1819 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pterioida -
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella sp. Whitfield 1855 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes broenlundi Ravn 1911 scallop
Camptonectes milnelandensis Fürsich 1982 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum
"Entolium corneolum" = Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
belemnites
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
ammonites
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
(Cycloserpula)
 Ichnofossils -
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833