Bruddalen (Jurassic of Greenland)

Also known as Fault Valley

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.2° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 6.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jamesoni (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, coarse-grained, calcareous sandstone

• hard bed consisting of a highly disintegrated shell breccia with many coarse quartz and feldspar grains. Sometimes the bed was developed like a coarse calcareous arkose with scattered shell fragments.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: coquina

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in 9th, 1927

• 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 162109: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 19.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp., "Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium callosum Lundgren 1895 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus, Aequipecten aequivalvis
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya ? groenlandica Rosenkrantz 1934 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte bayi Lundgren 1895 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia aff. liasina clam
Venericardia? aff. liasina
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis Dumortier 1869 clam
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 decapod
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
"Pentacrinus cf. scalaris" = Chladocrinus scalaris
"Pentacrinus cf. scalaris" = Chladocrinus scalaris Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily
Pentacrinus sp. cf. scalaris