Also known as Bardarson's Tjornes bed 7
Where: Iceland (66.0° N, 17.0° W: paleocoordinates 66.0° N, 16.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Breidavik Group, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Thick sequence of alternating terrestrial and marine sediments and interbedded lava flows of Pliocene and Pleistocene age; mostly fossiliferous marine sandstone with intermittent terrestrial or estuarine lignite beds and muddy sandstone; from Mactra biozone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with calcite
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Only target species were collected (mainly Arctica islandica/Pygocardia rustica)
Primary reference: B. Buchardt and L.A. Simonarson. 2003. Isotope palaeotemperatures from the Tjornes Beds in Iceland; evidence of Pliocene cooling. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 189(1-2):71-95 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 34947: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.10.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Lentidium complanatum Lamarck 1822 clam Listed in text, not appendix; combined with "Corbulamya compl." listed in appendix - Synonym by Vokes(1945) [entered as Lentidium complantum]
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Arctica islandica Linnaeus 1767 clam |