Fakse Limestone Quarry: Danian, Denmark

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Obliquorhynchia flustracea
Schrøder et al. 2018
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia candelabrum Henning 1899
Schrøder et al. 2018
Chondrichthyes
Machichnus bohemicus Mikulas et al. 2006
Milàn et al. 2011
Groups of parallel scrapes are interpreted as bite traces from sharks
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Hexanchidae
Notidanodon brotzeni
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonioidea indet. Baur 1893
Milàn et al. 2011
MGUH 29293 (carapace fragment ), with bite traces from a crocodilian, shark, and possibly a fish
Reptilia
Nihilichnus nihilicus Mikulas et al. 2006
Milàn et al. 2011
Two circular bite traces on the turtle carapace, interpreted as crocodylian
Thoracosaurus sp. Leidy 1852
Schwarz-Wings et al. 2014
basioccipital, a cervical vertebra, a humerus and several teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:Denmark State/province:Sjaelland
Coordinates: 55.3° North, 12.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.5° North, 9.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Danian Nannofossil zone: NP3
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "early NP3" based n a flora described by Perch-Nielsen (1979) and Floris (1979)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal poorly lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "bryozoan and coral limestones" similar material from Limhamn Quarry is from poorly lithified grainstones that are presumably very similar
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Geology comments: "inner shelf"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with phosphate
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:chemical,acetic,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: "treated with buffered acetic acid in order to remove adhering carbonates"
not bulk collected
Lund Original and Swedish Museum of Natural History collections
Taxonomic list comments:additional material was described by Davis (1890)
Metadata
Also known as:Faxe
Database number:90577
Authorizer:J. Alroy, B. Seuss, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, B. Seuss
Modifier:B. Seuss Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-08-07 15:25:23 Last modified:2022-04-28 06:02:41
Access level:the public Released:2009-08-07 15:25:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30479. M. Siverson. 1995. Revision of the Danian cow sharks, sand tiger sharks, and goblin sharks (Hexanchidae, Odontaspididae, and Mitsukurinidae) from southern Sweden. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(1):1-12 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

39383 J. Milàn, B. E. K. Lindow, and B. W. Lauridsen. 2011. Bite traces in a turtle carapace fragment from the middle Danian (Lower Paleocene) bryozoan limestone, Faxe, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 59:61-67 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
75098 A.E. Schrøder, B.W. Lauridsen, and F. Surlyk. 2018. Ecophenotypic asymmetry in the middle Danian brachiopod Obliquorhynchia flustracea caused by adaption to attachment on the coral Dendrophyllia candelabrum. Lethaia 51(1):86-95 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]
52305 D. Schwarz-Wings, J. Milàn, and P. Gravesen. 2014. A new eusuchian (Crocodylia) tooth from the Early or Middle Paleocene, with a description of the Early–Middle Paleocene boundary succession at Gemmas Allé, Copenhagen, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 62:17-26 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]