Loc. 313, Mussel River [Hectoroceras Beds]: Berriasian, Greenland
collected by Aldinger & Save-Soderbergh

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Hectoroceras kochi n. sp. Spath 1947
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Acroteuthis sp. Stolley 1911
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium cf. moreanum d'Orbigny 1845
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
Gastropoda - Acteoninidae
Actaeonina (Ovactaeonina) sp. (Cossmann 1895)
spelled with current rank as Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia ? volgensis (Lahusen 1888)
Buchia cf. terebratuloides (Lahusen 1888)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium nummularis
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina aff. fischeriana d'Orbigny 1845
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte cf. polymorpha
Astarte cf. saemanni de Loriol 1936
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 71.1° North, 23.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.7° North, 10.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Berriasian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 1
Key time interval:Berriasian
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 139.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the lower marl and shale series of the "Hectoroceras beds". AGE: Spath (1947) dated the unit as infra-Valanginian, between the Tithonian and Valanginian (s.s.). This now correlates to the Berriasian stage. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Hectoroceras shell bed.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous,gray,yellow lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Dark micaceous sandy shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies and taphonomic descriptions.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Presumably shallow marine, siliciclastic setting.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:Aldinger & Save-Soderbergh
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: H. Aldinger and G. Säve-Soderbergh, 1930's. REPOSITORY:BMNH, London.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropods, cephalopoda and echinodermata. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, but with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, though generally identified to species resolution.
Metadata
Database number:82622
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-07-30 10:43:54 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-30 10:43:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27801. L. F. Spath. 1947. Additional observations on the invertebrates (chiefly ammonites) of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of East Greenland. Meddeleser om Grønland 132(3):1-69 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]