Cape Stewart (gray sandstone): Pliensbachian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889
    = Uptonia jamesoni Sowerby 1827
Rosenkrantz 1934
original and current combination Ammonites jamesoni
a malformation
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895
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 - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Leda lacryma (Sowerby 1824)
    = Nuculana zieteni Brauns 1871
Rosenkrantz 1934
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya gronlandica n. sp. Lundgren 1895
3 specimens
    = Pholadomya ambigua Sowerby 1819
Rosenkrantz 1934
Panopaea informal sp. B (Menard 1807)
    = Arcomya longa
Rosenkrantz 1934
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Panopaea toulai n. sp. Lundgren 1895
    = Pleuromya costata
Rosenkrantz 1934
original and current combination Myacites (Pleuromya)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Hippopodiidae
Modiola ravni n. sp. Lundgren 1895
    = Hippopodium ponderosum Sowerby 1819
Rosenkrantz 1934
Panopaea sp. (Menard 1807)
    = Hippopodium ponderosum Sowerby 1819
Rosenkrantz 1934
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Rhynchonella informal sp. C Fischer 1809
    = Venericardia aff. liasina
Rosenkrantz 1934
Venericardia ? aff. liasina
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Perna sp. Retzius 1788
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten johnstrupi n. sp. Lundgren 1895
    = Aequipecten priscus Schlotheim 1820
Rosenkrantz 1934
original and current combination Pecten priscus
Pecten rinki n. sp. Lundgren 1895
    = Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835
Rosenkrantz 1934
Chlamys substriata rinki
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Avicula munsteri Bronn 1830
    = Oxytoma inaequivalve Sowerby 1819
Rosenkrantz 1934
recombined as Oxytoma inequivalvis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limaea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
    = Limea acuticosta
Rosenkrantz 1934
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797
    = Lima (Plagiostoma) sp. Sowerby 1814
Rosenkrantz 1934
original and current combination Plagiostoma
Lima (Plagiostoma) sp. an eucharis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula cf. spinosa Sowerby 1819
    = Plicatula pectinoides
Rosenkrantz 1934
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis minuta n. sp. Lundgren 1895
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pecten stewartianus n. sp. Lundgren 1895
    = Entolium frontale
Rosenkrantz 1934
Pecten callosus n. sp. Lundgren 1895
recombined as Entolium callosum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Pinna cf. folium Young and Bird 1822
Rosenkrantz 1934
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Ostrea gronlandica n. sp. Lundgren 1895
    = Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819
Rosenkrantz 1934
Ostrea sandalina Goldfuss 1834
    = Liostrea irregularis
Rosenkrantz 1934
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
    = Tetrarhynchia ? sp. Buckman 1917
Rosenkrantz 1934
Tetrarhynchia ? sp. A
Rhynchonella informal sp. B Fischer 1809
    = Grandirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Rosenkrantz 1934
Grandirhynchia sp. (cf. elii n. sp.)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Waldheimia informal sp. B King 1850
8 specimens
8-10 specimens
    = Lobothyris sp. Buckman 1917
Rosenkrantz 1934
Lobothyris sp. a malformation
Waldheimia sp. King 1850
    = Lobothyris cf. punctata Sowerby 1812
Rosenkrantz 1934
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:fine,micaceous,quartzose,gray lithified calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Sandstone, slightly calcareous rock with numerous small scales of white mica. Fine-grained, dense and somewhat quartzitic, sometimes conglomeratic.
Environment:marine 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:161208
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Manojlovic
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-09-02 18:28:06 Last modified:2014-09-16 15:05:32
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-02 18:28:06
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]