Hjornefjaeld (Jurassic of Greenland)

Also known as Corner Mountain

Where: Greenland (71.3° N, 22.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 2.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• "Upper Liassic"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, pyritic, gray, green, calcareous sandstone

• greyish-green calcareous sandstone with concretions often pyritic

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in May, 1927

• 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 162108: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 19.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
"Pholadomya aff. fidicula" = Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula
"Pholadomya aff. fidicula" = Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula Sowerby 1826 clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus aff. polyplocus" = Mytiloceramus polyplocus
"Inoceramus aff. polyplocus" = Mytiloceramus polyplocus Roemer 1857 clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
 Belemnitida - Megateuthididae
Megateuthis sp. Bayle 1878 belemnite