West of Lakse Elv, Bed C (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 5.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cape Stewart Beds Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• "Charmouthian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, micaceous, gray, calcareous sandstone

• Light-grey, hard, rather lime-stained arkose-like calcaerous sandstone with large mica flakes and scattered fossils.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in September, 1926

• Repository: (presumed) University of Coppenhagen

Primary reference: A. Rosenkrantz. 1934. The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part 1. Meddelelser Om Gronland 110(1):4-122 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161966: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 16.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Ptychomphaloidea - Ptychomphalidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
 Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia ? sp. Morris 1854 clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
 Carditida - Hippopodiidae
Hippopodium ponderosum Sowerby 1819 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia aff. liasina clam
Venericardia? aff. liasina
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis Dumortier 1869 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835 scallop
Chlamys substriata rinki
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium callosum Lundgren 1895 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster
Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Pterioida - Prospondylidea
Terquemia pectiniformis Eudes-Deslongchamps 1860 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Grandirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
 Ichnofossils -
"Ophiomorpha" sp. Lundgren 1891