Where: Sweden (56.8° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.7° N, 12.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Särdal Beds Formation, Early/Lower Santonian to Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• Division B, calcareous sandstone; 'dating with the aid of foraminifera and belemnites gives an age around the Early/Middle Santonian boundary'
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: authors and amateur collections;
•Museum repositories: Geological Survey of Sweden (EN), the Mineralogical Museum in Copenhagen (MMH), Geological Institute in Lund (LO)
Primary reference: J. Bergström, W. K. Christensen, C. Johansson and E. Norling. 1973. An extension of Upper Cretaceous Rocks to the Swedish west coast at Särdal. Bull. geol. Soc. Denmark 22:83-154 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70316: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Archaeoglobigerina bosquensis Pessagno 1967 | |
Globothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Nodosariata | |
Echinoidea | |
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Gnathostomata | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Isurus sp. Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark | |
Squalicorax lindstroemi crow shark | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite | |
"Actinocamax verus" = Belemnitella vera, Belemnitella propinqua
"Actinocamax verus" = Belemnitella vera Miller 1823 belemnite | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Ostrea marklini oyster | |
"Lopha semiplana" = Hyotissa semiplana, Exogyra ? obliquata
"Lopha semiplana" = Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchonella" (? Cretirhynchia) sp. Fischer 1809 | |
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Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Semicytella sp. Bassler 1934 | |
? Reteporidea sp. D'Orbigny 1849 | |
? Corymbopora sp. Michelin 1846 | |
Homeosolen sp. Lonsdale 1850 | |
Cirripedia | |
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Demospongea | |
"Demospongea indet." = Demospongiae
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