Also known as Bardarson's Tjornes bed 12

Where: Iceland (66.0° N, 17.0° W: paleocoordinates 66.0° N, 16.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-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: marginal marine; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

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 34952: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.10.2003

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