Kumait (Bed 9) (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.2° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 6.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, concretionary, sandy limestone

• calcareous concretions with a particularly well preserved fauna

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rosenkrantz

• Repository: (presumed) University of Coppenhagen

Primary reference: A. Rosenkrantz. 1942. The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part II The Mesozoic Sediments of the Kap Hope Area Southern Liverpool Land. Meddelelser Om Gronland 110(2):5-55 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162270: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 21.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Tubiferidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalvis" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima succincta Dumortier 1867 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys substriata, "Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus
Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835 scallop
Chlamys substriata rinki
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiola laevis" = Modiolus
"Modiola laevis" = Modiolus mussel
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya ? groenlandica Rosenkrantz 1934 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya ambigua Sowerby 1819 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium phillipianum cockle
Cardium (Jurassicardium?) phillipianum
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam
Tancredia n. sp. A
 Carditida - Hippopodiidae
Hippopodium ponderosum Sowerby 1819 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia aff. liasina clam
Venericardia? aff. liasina
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia listeri Sowerby 1817 clam
common
Cardinia concinna Sowerby 1819 clam
common
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis Dumortier 1869 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Tetrarhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris sp. Buckman 1917