Limhamn Quarry, Malmö, Mound II-N1, Skane (Paleocene of Sweden)

Also known as Reef 869

Where: Sweden (55.6° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Middle Danian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basin reef; lithified lime mudstone

• Mound about 40 m wide and 15 m thick. Flank facies: dominated by bryozoans, core facies: rich in octocorals with less abundant colonial scleractinians and bryozoans, transitional areas: dominated by octocorals with abundant bryozoans

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. H. Cheetham. 1971. Functional morphology and biofacies distribution of cheilostome Bryozoa in the Danian Stage (Paleocene)of southern Scandinavia. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 6:1-87 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69603: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
 Cheilostomata - Microporidae
 Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
 Cheilostomata - Aspidostomatidae
 Cheilostomata - Coscinopleuridae
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
 Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae
 Cheilostomata -
 Cheilostomata - Scorioporidae
 Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
 Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
 Cheilostomata - Platyglenidae
 Cheilostomata - Porinidae
 Cheilostomata - Electridae
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
 Cheilostomata - Tessaradomidae