Milne Land M13/5: Tithonian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Macaronichnus segregatis
Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884
31 specimens
"(Dorsopl.)" ammonites
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Bullinidae
Sulcoactaeon peroskianus
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia mosquensis (White 1885)
11 specimens
synonym of Buchia piochii
Buchia rugosa Fischer 1837
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma inequivalve (Sowerby 1819)
11 specimens
recombined as Oxytoma inequivalvis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis radiata (Phillips 1829)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma incrassatum
39 specimens
Plagiostoma informal sp. A Sowerby 1814
2 specimens
sp. A
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare (Sowerby 1817)
8 specimens
synonym of Syncyclonema nilsoni
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes morini
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna lanceolota
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea plastica
21 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya literata (Sowerby 1819)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina birkelundi
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Corbicellopsis lorioli
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia sp. Morris 1854
2 specimens
originally entered as "Quenstedia sp."
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816
1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
1 specimen
new species
unclassified
Curvolithus sp. Fritsch 1908
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 70.5° North, 22.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.0° North, 11.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
*Epoch:Malm
*International age/stage:Volgian
Key time interval:Tithonian Zone: Middle Volgian
Age range of interval:152.10000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kap Leslie Member:Pernaryggen
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: M 13/5 bed
see Birkelund, T. et al. 1984. Gronlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,glauconitic sandstone
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:ammonites counted but not identified
Metadata
Database number:1262
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-03-28 15:58:43 Last modified:2017-07-04 12:38:18
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-28 15:58:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37. F. T. Fürsich and D. K. Pandey. 1999. Genesis and environmental significance of Upper Cretaceous shell concentrations from the Cauvery Basin, southern India. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 145(1):119-139(21) [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]