South side of Dinosaurus Kloft, Bed 142.5-144m (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 5.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, brown, gray limestone

• hard bed of very coarse, greyish-brown arkose-limestone with numerous fossils and pavements of Entolium frontale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in 10th, 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 161982: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 16.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea sp. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula cf. torquata
Serupula sp. cf. torquata
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana zieteni Brauns 1871 pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium phillipianum cockle
Cardium (Jurassicardium?) phillipianum
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha decorata Münster 1837 clam
Gastropoda
 Ptychomphaloidea - Ptychomphalidae
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae