Astarte Kloft mouth (bed 7) (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.6° N, 22.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 6.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jamesoni (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Based on Uptoni Jamesoni fragment in Bed 5

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, fine-grained, brown, conglomeratic limestone

• Rather fine-grained brown limestone with several conglomeratic portions and pavement with Isognomon n. sp. in the lower part of the bed.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in 28th, 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 162073: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 19.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiola scalprum" = Modiolus (Modiolus) scalprum
"Modiola scalprum" = Modiolus (Modiolus) scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima succincta Dumortier 1867 file clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium callosum Lundgren 1895 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835 scallop
Chlamys substriata rinki
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia aff. liasina clam
Venericardia? aff. liasina
 Carditida - Hippopodiidae
Hippopodium ponderosum Sowerby 1819 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Grandirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Stolmorhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae