Milne Land M20/17: Tithonian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Boreiothyrididae
Taimyrothyris sp. Dagys 1968
2 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea latissima
1 specimen
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula intestinalis Gmelin 1791
2 specimens
(Cycloserpula)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna lanceolota
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon volaticum
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes morini
5 specimens
Camptonectes praecinctus
12 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis radiata (Phillips 1829)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia mosquensis (White 1885)
18 specimens
synonym of Buchia piochii
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium orbiculare (Sowerby 1817)
27 specimens
synonym of Syncyclonema nilsoni
Bivalvia
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884
1 specimen
"shallow burrowing heterodont"
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884
1 specimen
"burr. heterodont (A)"
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Eriphyla saemanni
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uralensis
1 specimen
original and current combination Myacites (Pleuromya)
Pleuromya triangularis
12 specimens
original and current combination Myacites (Pleuromya)
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Corbicellopsis sp. Cox 1929
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Hartwellia kharoschowensis
1 specimen
Isocyprina birkelundi
15 specimens
Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882
1 specimen
"large isocyprina"
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia depressa (Sowerby 1823)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pachymya sinuata
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895
24 specimens
belemnites
Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884
5 specimens
ammonites
Gastropoda - Pseudomelaniidae
Pseudomelania sp. Pictet and Campiche 1862
3 specimens
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 20 Local bed:17
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: see Birkelund, T. et al. : Gronlands geol. Undersog. Bull. 147
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic unlithified 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 and belemnites counted but not identified
Metadata
Database number:1460
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-04-30 06:05:16 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:10:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-30 06:05:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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