Where: Sweden (56.8° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 11.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• reworked phosphatised rock fragments found in the limestone and the sandstone (Särdal beds); 'based on the presence of Actinocamax ex gr. primus/plenus, can be assigned to the late Cenomanian and/or the A. plenus Zone between the Cenomanian and the Turonian. it is also possible that the Turonian and/or Coniacian may be represented by some rock pieces, but this cannot be verified at present'

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, gray grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: authors and amateur collections;

•Museum repositories: Geological Survey of Sweden (EN), the Mineralogical Museum in Copenhagen (MMH), Geological Institute in Lund (LO)

Primary reference: J. Bergström, W. K. Christensen, C. Johansson and E. Norling. 1973. An extension of Upper Cretaceous Rocks to the Swedish west coast at Särdal. Bull. geol. Soc. Denmark 22:83-154 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70427: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.03.2007

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