Bjerre, Danish White Chalk, Viborg (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (57.1° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 7.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Danish White Chalk Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Birkelund. 1993. Ammonites from the Maastrichtian White Chalk of Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 40(1-2):33-81 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67409: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Diplomoceras cylindraceum
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites vertebralis
Baculites vertebralis Lamarck 1801 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Hoploscaphites constrictus
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Anapachydiscus terminus
Anapachydiscus terminus Ward and Kennedy 1993 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Saghalinites sp. n. sp.
Saghalinites sp. n. sp. Wright and Matsumoto 1954 ammonite