Loc. 303, Hill 66 [Hectoroceras Beds] (Cretaceous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (71.1° N, 23.3° W: paleocoordinates 55.7° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the lower marl and shale series of the "Hectoroceras beds". AGE: Spath (1947) dated the unit as infra-Valanginian, between the Tithonian and Valanginian (s.s.). This now correlates to the Berriasian stage. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position in local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Presumably coastal, siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thin sandstone slabs. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies and taphonomic descriptions.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, charcoalification

Collected by Aldinger & Save-Soderbergh; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: H. Aldinger and G. Säve-Soderbergh, 1930's. REPOSITORY:BMNH, London.

Primary reference: L. F. Spath. 1947. Additional observations on the invertebrates (chiefly ammonites) of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of East Greenland. Meddeleser om Grønland 132(3):1-69 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82609: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropods, cephalopoda and echinodermata. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, but with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, though generally identified to species resolution.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Subcraspedites (? Paracraspedites) sp.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia ? volgensis
Buchia ? volgensis Lahusen 1888 scallop