Olympen, Jameson Land: Bathonian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
10 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 71.4° North, 23.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.5° North, 20.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Bathonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 4
Key time interval: Bathonian Ammonoid zone:  Ishmae
Age range of interval: 168.2 - 165.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vardekloft Member:Pelion
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: large sandstone concretions
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:141379
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-26 20:08:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-26 20:08:26
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
45977. T. P. Poulton and J. H. Callomon. 1977. A new species of trigoniid bivalve from the Boreal Bathonian (Jurassic) of central East Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 26:155-159 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]