Köpingsberg-1 borehole, 481.2 m (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (55.4° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Santonian, on the basis of foraminiferal and ammonite biostratigraphy, and stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 481.26-481.35 m in core.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated, but likely to be offshore marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Glauconitic, calcareous, clayey siltstones. LITHIFICATION: Lithified on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: core,

• COLLECTOR: Not detailed, but probably included Aneregg, Norling and Skoglund, the original describers of the core, drilled 1967. REPOSITORY: Swedish Geological Survey, Uppsala.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. K. Christennsen. 1993. Santonian ammonites from the Köpingsberg-1 borehole, Sweden. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Denmark 40:149-156 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82707: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonites, although material very limited. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication with modern nomenclature, but many taxa not identified to species resolution because of poor preservation.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Boehmoceras arculus Morton 1834 ammonite