Milne Land M40/1: Oxfordian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
(Cycloserpula)
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
Amoeboceras sp. Hyatt 1900
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
Amberleya sp. Morris and Lycett 1851
2 specimens
originally entered as "Ambereleya sp."
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Neritinidae indet. Poey 1852
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Neritininae
neritinid sp. A
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arctica syssollae
12 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Corbicellopsis laevis
4 specimens
Tancredia donaciformis Lycett 1850
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus strajeskianus (d'Orbigny 1845)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes broenlundi Ravn 1911
202 specimens
Camptonectes cf. auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
2 specimens
originally entered as "Camptonectes cf. auritus"
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. (Meek and Hayden 1865)
1 specimen
original and current combination Avicula (Oxytoma)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
4 specimens
sp. 2
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon keyserlingii d'Orbigny 1850
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Lopatinia callomoni
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Praebuchia kirghisensis
43 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 70.5° North, 22.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.0° North, 11.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Epoch:Malm
Key time interval:Oxfordian Zone: Upper Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kap Leslie Member:Aldinger Elv
Local section:M 40 Local bed:1
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: see Birkelund, T. et al. 1984: Gronlands geol. Undersog. 147
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface 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
Metadata
Database number:1468
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-04-30 06:45:26 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:11:36
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-30 06:45:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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