Ivö Klack Brachiopods (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Where: Skåne, Sweden (56.1° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 14.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Belemnellocamax mammilatus other zone, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone

• carbonate succession, total thickness 30m

Size class: macrofossils

• shore was colonized by a highly diverse fauna dominated by oysters and a biological zonation of the cementing epifauna, many invertebrate fossils, abundant belemnites

Collection methods: approx. 500 kg of limestone were collected, washed and seperated into fractions; collection housed in the NHM, Denmark and the NR, Stockholm

Primary reference: A.E. Schrøder, A.M. Sórensen, and F. Surlyk. 2019. Morphological adaptations of the brachiopods from a Late Cretaceous rocky shore, Ivö Klack, southern Sweden. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514:785-799 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 217297: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 05.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Crania craniolaris Linnaeus 1758
minimum number of individuals: 3
Isocrania egnabergensis
minimum number of individuals: 78
Danocrania tuberculata
minimum number of individuals: 11
Ancistrocrania parisiensis
minimum number of individuals: 1
Ancistrocrania stobaei
minimum number of individuals: 91
Ancistrocrania bromelli
minimum number of individuals: 21
Ancistrocrania retzii
minimum number of individuals: 3
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Plectothyris fallax
minimum number of individuals: 2
Plectothyris malmi
minimum number of individuals: 3
Plectothyris praelustris
minimum number of individuals: 1
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina striata
minimum number of individuals: 53
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Rectithyris depressa Lamarck 1819
minimum number of individuals: 227
 Terebratulida - Gibbithyrididae
Rhombaria rhomboidalis Nilsson 1827
minimum number of individuals: 73
 Terebratulida - Kingenidae
Belothyris pentagonalis
minimum number of individuals: 177
 Terebratulida -
Rhynchorina spathulata
minimum number of individuals: 181
Rhynchora pectinata
minimum number of individuals: 55
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Woodwardirhynchia ala
minimum number of individuals: 27
Owenirhynchia triangularis
minimum number of individuals: 238
Cyclothyris spectabilis
minimum number of individuals: 6