Faxoe (BMNH collection) (Paleocene of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (55.3° N, 12.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. H. Foord and G. C. Crick. 1890. On some new and imperfectly-defined species of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary Nautili contained in the British Museum (Natural History). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 6:388-409 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171510: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2015, edited by Rosa Valdez

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
"Nautilus (Hercoglossa) danicus" = Hercoglossa danica
"Nautilus (Hercoglossa) danicus" = Hercoglossa danica Schlotheim 1820 nautiloid
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Dynomenidae
Kromtitis daniensis n. sp. Collins 2010 crab