Lejr Elv (Jurassic of Greenland)

Also known as Camp River

Where: Greenland (71.3° N, 22.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° N, 2.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• "Upper Liassic"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, calcareous sandstone

• peculiar, fossiliferous, hard, brown calcareous sandstone (found as loose blocks in riverbed)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in May, 1927

• 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 162105: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 19.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Stolmorhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Stolmorhynchia sp. B
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Homeorhynchia aff. cynocephala" = Homoeorhynchia
"Homeorhynchia aff. cynocephala" = Homoeorhynchia
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
"Ornithella cf. sarthacensis" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) sarthacensis
"Ornithella cf. sarthacensis" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) sarthacensis d'Orbigny 1850
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae