Milne Land M31/10: Oxfordian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Ditrupa sp. Berkeley 1835
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus strajeskianus (d'Orbigny 1845)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Praebuchia kirghisensis
20 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Lopatinia callomoni
127 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes broenlundi Ravn 1911
9 specimens
Camptonectes auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Anomalodesmata
Anomalodesmata indet. Dall 1889
39 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Corbicellopsis lorioli
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arctica syssollae
52 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya literata (Sowerby 1819)
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea
Ammonoidea indet. Zittel 1884
20 specimens
ammonites
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullina sp. Férussac 1822
3 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 31 Local bed:10
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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
Taxonomic list comments:ammonites counted but not identified
Metadata
Database number:1496
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:F. Fursich
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-05-07 07:04:56 Last modified:2017-07-27 17:44:54
Access level:the public Released:1999-05-07 07:04:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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 Unpublished data.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