Where: Greenland (70.6° N, 53.1° W: paleocoordinates 58.7° N, 14.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• Santonian age (Clioscaphites montanaensis Zone)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: 'Most of the material described in this paper was collected during the Nugssuaq Expeditions in 1938-1939 and during the current geological mapping of Svartenhuk and Nugssuaq under the auspices of the Geological Survey of Greenland. Both were carried out under the leadership of Professor A. Rosenkrantz.' The author himself joined two of the expeditions.
•Museum repositories: MMH
Primary reference: T. Birkelund. 1965. Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of West Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 179(7):1-192 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70209: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus (Sphenoceramus) ex gr. steenstrupi" = Sphenoceramus
"Inoceramus (Sphenoceramus) ex gr. steenstrupi" = Sphenoceramus clam inoceramids of the steenstrupi group
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Cephalopoda | |
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