Raeve Kloft, Tancredia Bed (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.6° 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, fine-grained, ferruginous, micaceous, gray, calcareous sandstone

• Very hard, dark-grey, rather fine-grained, ferruginous, calcaraeous sandstone with abundant large mica flakes

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in 16th, 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 161974: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 16.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cf. cordata Goldfuss 1837 nut clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam
Tancredia n. sp. A
Tancredia ? sp. Lycett 1850 clam
Tancredia (Corbicellopsis?) n. sp.
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Trigonia cf. lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis
"Trigonia cf. lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis Dumortier 1869 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835 scallop
Chlamys substriata rinki
Aequipecten bierringi n. sp. Rosenkrantz 1934 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium callosum Lundgren 1895 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Belemnites sp. Lamarck 1799 belemnite
Belemnites sp. ind.