Igterajivit (Bed i) (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.3° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 6.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cape Stewart Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• hard arenaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in 1934

• Repository: (presumed) University of Coppenhagen

Primary reference: A. Rosenkrantz. 1942. The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part II The Mesozoic Sediments of the Kap Hope Area Southern Liverpool Land. Meddelelser Om Gronland 110(2):5-55 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162264: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 21.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium cf. elongatum tusk shell
Dentalium cf. elongatum gracile
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
"Oolitica sp." = Ooliticia
"Oolitica sp." = Ooliticia snail
 Trochoidea - Ataphridae
Lewisiella aff. conica d'Orbigny 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
very common