Where: Greenland (70.4° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 5.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cape Stewart Beds Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• Callovian according to the author, based on resemblance to the fauna of Kuhn Island (repeated in the Index of Statigraphy of North America 1912 pg. 547).
•Revised as Charmouthian (Pliensbachian) by Rosenkrantz.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, micaceous, black limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. Lundgren. 1895. Jurafossil fran Kap Stewart i Ost-Gronland. Meddelelser om Gronland 7:191-214 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 161207: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 02.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Tetrarhynchia ? sp. Buckman 1917 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sacculus Chapuis and Dewalque 1854 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Modiola scalprum" = Modiolus (Modiolus) scalprum
"Modiola scalprum" = Modiolus (Modiolus) scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel | |
Placunopsis minuta Lundgren 1895 scallop | |
"Limaea duplicata" = Pseudolimea duplicata
"Limaea duplicata" = Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam | |
Astarte wandeli n. sp., Astarte bayi n. sp.
Astarte wandeli n. sp. Lundgren 1895 clam
Astarte bayi n. sp. Lundgren 1895 clam | |
Gresslya lunulata clam | |
Myoconcha decorata Münster 1837 clam | |
Cardium phillipianum cockle | |
Tancredia johnstrupi clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Turbo sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail |