Cape Stewart (black limestone): Pliensbachian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Straparolus sp. (de Montfort 1810)
    = Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826
Rosenkrantz 1934
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Turbo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Ptychomphalidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826
    = Ptychomphalus consobrinus
Rosenkrantz 1934
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Lyonsia subaequilateralis n. sp. Lundgren 1895
3 specimens
    = Gresslya lunulata
Rosenkrantz 1934
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha borealis n. sp. Lundgren 1895
    = Myoconcha decorata Münster 1837
Rosenkrantz 1934
Myoconcha decorata sp. juv.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia elongata n. sp. Lundgren 1895
    = Tancredia johnstrupi
Rosenkrantz 1934
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium concinnum Buch 1844
    = Cardium phillipianum
Rosenkrantz 1934
Cardium (Jurassicardium?) phillipianum
Bivalvia - Carditida - Cardiniidae
Astarte amygdaloides n. sp. Lundgren 1895
    = Cardinia cf. attenuata
Rosenkrantz 1934
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte bayi n. sp. Lundgren 1895
Astarte wandeli n. sp. Lundgren 1895
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiola sp. Lamarck 1801
    = Modiola scalprum Sowerby 1821
Rosenkrantz 1934
recombined as Modiolus (Modiolus) scalprum
Modiola scalprum aff. laevis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limaea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
recombined as Pseudolimea duplicata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis minuta Lundgren 1895
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
3 specimens
    = Lingula sacculus Chapuis and Dewalque 1854
Rosenkrantz 1934
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
    = Tetrarhynchia ? sp. Buckman 1917
Rosenkrantz 1934
Tetrarhynchia ? sp. A
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 70.4° North, 22.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.1° North, 5.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cape Stewart Beds
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Callovian according to the author, based on resemblance to the fauna of Kuhn Island (repeated in the Index of Statigraphy of North America 1912 pg. 547).
Revised as Charmouthian (Pliensbachian) by Rosenkrantz.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous,black lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Darker, almost black highly calcaerous rock with small white mica flakes.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:161207
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-09-02 18:21:30 Last modified:2014-09-16 15:05:20
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-02 18:21:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52523. B. Lundgren. 1895. Jurafossil fran Kap Stewart i Ost-Gronland. Meddelelser om Gronland 7:191-214 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

52706 A. Rosenkrantz. 1934. The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part 1. Meddelelser Om Gronland 110(1):4-122 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]