South side of Dinosaurus Kloft, Bed 146-147.5 m (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 6.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• based on Lytoceras fimbriatum

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, ferruginous, micaceous, gray, green, calcareous sandstone

• hard bed of greyish-green, rather fine-grained limy sandstone, richly micaceous. The cement is highly ferruginous

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in 10th, 1926

• Repository: (presumed) University of Coppenhagen

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161983: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 16.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris sp. Buckman 1917
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cf. cordata Goldfuss 1837 nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiola cf. scalprum" = Modiolus (Modiolus) scalprum
"Modiola cf. scalprum" = Modiolus (Modiolus) scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Plagiostoma) eucharis" = Plagiostoma, "Lima (Plagiostoma) boonei" = Plagiostoma, Lima cf. succincta
"Lima (Plagiostoma) eucharis" = Plagiostoma file clam
"Lima (Plagiostoma) boonei" = Plagiostoma file clam
Lima cf. succincta Dumortier 1867 file clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis minuta Lundgren 1895 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys substriata, "Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus, Aequipecten bierringi n. sp.
Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835 scallop
Chlamys substriata rinki
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Aequipecten bierringi n. sp. Rosenkrantz 1934 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Carditida - Hippopodiidae
Hippopodium ponderosum Sowerby 1819 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Mactromya ? groenlandica Rosenkrantz 1934 clam
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras fimbriatum Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
"Beaniceras sp." = Aegoceras (Beaniceras) Buckman 1913 ammonite
Androgynoceras ? sp. Hyatt 1867 ammonite
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea sp. Leske 1778 sea urchin