Varde Kloft 382m (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.7° N, 22.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 5.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, coarse-grained, white, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• coarse, yellowish to whitish, calcaerous arkose-sandstones often containing big quartz grains. Looser beds alternate with hard, projecting beds

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in 29th and September 2nd, 1926

• 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 162065: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 18.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Belemnites indet. belemnite
big belemnite-phragmocones
 Belemnitida - Megateuthididae
Megateuthis sp. Bayle 1878 belemnite
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Tegulidae
"Trochus aff. torulosus" = Cantallocostoma quadricostatum
"Trochus aff. torulosus" = Cantallocostoma quadricostatum Wood 1828 snail
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella sp. Linnaeus 1758 limpet
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
"Entolium demissum" = Entolium demissus
"Entolium demissum" = Entolium demissus Phillips 1835 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cf. opalina Quenstedt 1858 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia sp. Defrance 1820 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiola sp." = Modiolus
"Modiola sp." = Modiolus Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya aff. elongata Schlotheim 1822 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
Loboidothyris sp. Buckman 1917
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
"Ornithella cf. sarthacensis" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) sarthacensis
"Ornithella cf. sarthacensis" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) sarthacensis d'Orbigny 1850
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella cf. lineata
cf. Rhynchonella lineata