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: From Hectoroceras shell bed.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, micaceous, gray, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
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 82622: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Entolium nummularis scallop | |
Buchia cf. terebratuloides Lahusen 1888 scallop
Buchia ? volgensis Lahusen 1888 scallop | |
Lucina aff. fischeriana d'Orbigny 1845 clam | |
Astarte cf. saemanni de Loriol 1936 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hectoroceras kochi n. sp.
Hectoroceras kochi n. sp. Spath 1947 ammonite | |
Acroteuthis sp. Stolley 1911 belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Actaeonina (Ovactaeonina) sp." = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)
"Actaeonina (Ovactaeonina) sp." = Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) Cossmann 1895 snail | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium cf. moreanum d'Orbigny 1845 tusk shell |