Milne Land M22/21: Tithonian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Boreiothyrididae
Taimyrothyris sp. Dagys 1968
1 specimen
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula intestinalis Gmelin 1791
2 specimens
(Cycloserpula)
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus bipartitus Sowerby 1818
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon schourovskii
2 specimens
Grammatodon keyserlingii d'Orbigny 1850
57 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea plastica
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon volaticum
20 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes morini
3 specimens
Camptonectes praecinctus
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma inequivalve (Sowerby 1819)
1 specimen
recombined as Oxytoma inequivalvis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare (Sowerby 1817)
9 specimens
synonym of Syncyclonema nilsoni
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Eriphyla saemanni
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp. (Meek 1873)
2 specimens
original and current combination Myacites (Pleuromya)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida
Pholadomyoida indet. Newell 1965
1 specimen
corrected as Pholadomyida
deep burrowing pholadomyacean
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya literata (Sowerby 1819)
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884
2 specimens
ammonites
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
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:Pernaryggen
Local section:M 22 Local bed:21
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: see Birkelund, T. et al. 1984. Gronlands geol. Undersog. 147
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic lithified sandstone
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
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:1407
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-04-10 01:48:28 Last modified:2017-07-04 15:15:56
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-10 01:48:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

41. F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]