Sample BO27, Bavnodde Greensand Formation, Bornholm: Late/Upper Coniacian - Santonian, Denmark

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Orbiculiformidae
Orbiculiforma monticelloensis
Orbiculiforma quadrata Pessagno 1973
Orbiculiforma vacaensis Pessagno 1973
see common names

Geography
Country:Denmark
Coordinates: 55.1° North, 14.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.0° North, 14.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Coniacian - Santonian
Age range of interval:89.80000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bavnodde Greensand Local bed:Sample BO27
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower Bavnodde Greensand Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: poorly sorted, glauconitic, fine-grained, silty quartz sand; clasts of reworked limestone in the basal part of the formation
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: inner to ?middle shelf
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: the macrofauna of the formation comprises inoceramids, belemnites and ammonites
Metadata
Database number:62514
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2006-07-21 04:02:13 Last modified:2006-07-21 07:02:14
Access level:the public Released:2006-07-21 04:02:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18050. S. R. Packer and M. B. Hart. 2005. Coniacian-Santonian Radiolaria from the Upper Cretaceous of Bornholm, Denmark: A preliminary investigation. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 52(2):141-157 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]