Ellidshoj, Danish White Chalk, Nordjylland (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (56.9° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zone 9 brachiopod zone, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Upper Maastrichtian Danish White Chalk

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen (MGUH)

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 67421: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2006, edited by Chelsea Chan

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Lunulitidae
Lunulites microstoma Håkansson and Voigt 1996
Lunulites foveolata Håkansson and Voigt 1996
Lunulites patens Håkansson and Voigt 1996
Lunulites pseudocretacea n. sp. Håkansson and Voigt 1996