Tormarp near Örkelljunga (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Where: Halland, Sweden (56.3° N, 13.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Haegg (1930, 1935) discusses the Tormarpchalk as Mammillatenkrita/Mammillaten zone. The informal swedish B. mammillatus zone belongs to the uppermost Lower Campanian. In 1940 Haegg discusses the faunal assemblage as most probably belonging to the Inflaticeras inflatum zone (Late Albian), and possibly as well to the Pecten asper zone (Lower Cenomanian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous conglomerate

• chalky conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Haegg. 1940. Die Mollusken und Brachiopoden der Kreide bei Tormarp in Schweden. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 62(3):214-233 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38722: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.05.2004, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurotomaria texta" = Zlichomphalina texta
"Pleurotomaria texta" = Zlichomphalina texta Perner 1907 snail
 Neritoina - Neritopsidae
Neritopsis sp. Grateloup 1832 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
 Neritoidea - Pileolidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea glabra Parkinson 1811 clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Pecten orbicularis" = Entolium orbiculare
"Pecten orbicularis" = Entolium orbiculare Sowerby 1817 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten acuminatus" = Chlamys subacuta, "Pecten curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus, "Pecten gaultinus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) gaultinus, "Spondylus striatus" = Spondylus subnodosus
"Pecten acuminatus" = Chlamys subacuta Lamarck 1819 scallop
"Pecten curvatus" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop
"Pecten gaultinus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) gaultinus Woods 1902 scallop
"Spondylus striatus" = Spondylus subnodosus Packard 1922 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea sp., "Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria anomala pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea hippopodium" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis
"Ostrea hippopodium" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea digitata" = Cubitostrea digitalina, "Ostrea diluviana" = Rastellum diluvianum, Ostrea conica
"Ostrea digitata" = Cubitostrea digitalina Eichwald 1830 oyster
"Ostrea diluviana" = Rastellum diluvianum Linnaeus 1767 oyster
Ostrea conica Stoppani 1865 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiola reversa" = Modiolus reversus Sowerby 1836 mussel
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista plana venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Cardiida - Solecurtidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina inaequalis tellin clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Rhynchonella grasiana" = Grasirhynchia grasiana
"Rhynchonella grasiana" = Grasirhynchia grasiana d'Orbigny 1849
 Terebratulida - Capillithyrididae
"Terebratula capillata" = Capillithyris capillata
"Terebratula capillata" = Capillithyris capillata Archiac 1847
 Terebratulida -
Magas sp. Sowerby 1816