Where: Denmark (55.1° N, 14.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 13.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Arnager Greensand Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian to Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• 'Inocermid fauna of the basal part of the greensand... the Arnager Greensand s. str. can be referred to the lower Middle Cenomanian on ammonite and inoceramid bivalve evidences... on foraminiferal evidence, the basal 5 m of the greensand is from the Lower Cenomanian'
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified, bioturbated, glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Museum repositories: MGUH, GM, MMH and MM
Primary reference: T. Birkelund. 1957. Upper Cretaceous belemnites from Denmark. Biologiske Skrifter. Det Kongelige Danske Viden-skabernes Selskab 9(1):1-69 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69975: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 14.03.2007, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Actinocamax primus Arkhangelsky 1912 belemnite | |
Schloenbachia ? coupei2, Schloenbachia coupei2, Schloenbachia cf. coupei2, Schloenbachia cf. varians2, Schloenbachia varians2, Schloenbachia aff. varians2
Schloenbachia varians2 Sowerby 1817 ammonite incl. S. varians varians, S. varians aff. subtuberculata and S. varians subvarians
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"Acanthoceras sussexiense" = Acanthoceras rhotomagense sussexiense1
"Acanthoceras sussexiense" = Acanthoceras rhotomagense sussexiense1 Mantell 1822 ammonite A. rhotomagense sussexiense
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Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus crippsi" = Gnesioceramus cripsii3 Mantell 1822 clam incl. I. crippsi subsp. indet. and I. cripssi hoppenstedtensis
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