Also known as Kopenhagen, Denmark
Where: Denmark (55.7° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 9.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Lellinge Greensand Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. -J. Anderson. 1975. Die Fauna der palaeocaenen Hueckelhovener Schichten aus dem Schacht Sophia Jacoba 6 (Erkelenzer Horst, Niederrheinische Bucht). Teil 3: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda. Geologica et Palaeontologica 9:141-171 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3121: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus intumescens tusk shell | |
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Bivalvia | |
Propeamussium hauniense mud scallop | |
Glycymeris corneti clam | |
Nemocardium semidecussatum cockle | |
Corbula koeneni clam | |
"Crassatella subplana" = Crassatella vadosa
"Crassatella subplana" = Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Volutocorbis nodifera" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis nodifera" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Ancilla flexuosa von Koenen 1885 olive snail |