Sample AK30, Bavnodde Greensand Formation, Bornholm: Late/Upper Coniacian - Santonian, Denmark
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa
- Spumellaria
- Praeconocaryommidae
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Praeconocaryomma californiaensis
Pessagno 1976
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Praeconocaryomma universa
Pessagno 1976
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Protozoa
- Spumellaria
- Archaeospongoprunidae
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Archaeospongoprunum sp.
Pessagno 1973
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several species | ||||||||||
Protozoa
- Spumellaria
- Orbiculiformidae
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Orbiculiforma sp.
Pessagno 1973
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several species | ||||||||||
Orbiculiforma vacaensis
Pessagno 1973
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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 AK30 | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: middle? Bavnodde Greensand Formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
Lithology description: poorly sorted, glauconitic, fine-grained, silty quartz sand | |
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: | 62520 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | micropaleontology |
Created: | 2006-07-21 04:40:53 | Last modified: | 2006-07-21 07:40:53 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-07-21 04:40:52 |
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] |