Jydelejet, Møns Klint, Danish White Chalk (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Also known as Jydelejet and Dronningestolen cliffs

Where: Denmark (55.0° N, 12.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 10.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hvidskud Member (Møns Klint Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Lower Maastrichtian Danish White Chalk

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•Hvidskud Member of the Møns Klint Formation, specifically the brachiopod zone 6 (pulchellus-tenuicostata zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Håkansson and E. Voigt. 1996. New free-living bryozoans from the northwest European Chalk. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 42:187-207 [M. Clapham/C. Chan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214429: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Chelsea Chan on 29.09.2020, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
cf. Thoracosaurus sp.
cf. Thoracosaurus sp. Leidy 1852 crocodilian
NHMD-656636 (formerly GM-1968.5) - a partial mandibular symphysis
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Lunulitidae
Lunulites microstoma
Lunulites microstoma Håkansson and Voigt 1996