Goniomya Kloft (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.6° N, 22.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 5.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, coarse-grained, brown, gray, green, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone

• coarse, conglomeratic, calcareous arkose-sandstones of a greyish-green colour and with a brownish weathering crust

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 162058: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 18.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia concinna Sowerby 1819 clam
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya ? groenlandica Rosenkrantz 1934 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya ambigua Sowerby 1819 clam
Arcomya ? sp. Agassiz 1838 clam
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya petricosa Simpson 1855 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium phillipianum cockle
Cardium (Jurassicardium?) phillipianum
 Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia ? sp. Morris 1854 clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam
Tancredia "sp. B" Lycett 1850 clam
Tancredia ? sp. Lycett 1850 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster
Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima succincta Dumortier 1867 file clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Velata hartzi" = Eopecten hartzi, "Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus, Chlamys cf. textoria, Chlamys substriata
"Velata hartzi" = Eopecten hartzi Rosenkrantz 1957 scallop
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Chlamys cf. textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835 scallop
Chlamys substriata rinki
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium callosum Lundgren 1895 scallop
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Squamirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Grandirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sacculus Chapuis and Dewalque 1854