Where: Sweden (55.4° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 13.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Coniacian, on the basis of foraminiferal; Santonian, on the basis ammonite biostratigraphy, and stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 624.87-624.95 m in core.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous siltstone
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 82725: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Scaphites kieslingswaldensis" = Scaphites (Scaphites) kieslingswaldensis
"Scaphites kieslingswaldensis" = Scaphites (Scaphites) kieslingswaldensis Langenhan and Grundey 1891 ammonite SUBSPECIES: S. kieslingswaldensis fischeri
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