Milne Land M13/1: Tithonian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida
Cidaroida indet. (Claus 1880)
1 specimen
"disintegrated cidaroid (plates and spicules)"
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Boreiothyrididae
Taimyrothyris sp. Dagys 1968
2 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
13 specimens
sp. nov.
Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884
58 specimens
ammonites
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895
3 specimens
belemnites
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Eriphyla saemanni
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya sp. Agassiz 1842
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uralensis
3 specimens
original and current combination Myacites (Pleuromya)
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
61 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
1 specimen
Liostrea plastica
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon volaticum
31 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia cf. rugosa Fischer 1837
6 specimens
originally entered as "Buchia cf. rugosa"
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes morini
1 specimen
Camptonectes praecinctus
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare (Sowerby 1817)
1 specimen
synonym of Syncyclonema nilsoni
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
1 specimen
unclassified
Skolithos sp. Haldemann 1840
Thalassinoides suevicus (Rieth 1932)
Curvolithus sp. Fritsch 1908
Diplocraterion habichi
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:149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kap Leslie Member:Krebsedal
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: M 13/1 bed
see Birkelund, T. et al. 1984. Gronlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation 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:belemnites and ammonites counted but not identified
Metadata
Database number:1276
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-03-28 17:07:32 Last modified:2017-07-04 12:40:27
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-28 17:07:32
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]