Helsingborg railway tunnel (Jurassic of Sweden)

Where: Skåne, Sweden (56.0° N, 12.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 9.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Helsingborg Member (Höganäs Formation), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; paleosol/pedogenic mudstone and mudstone

• "The section is interpreted as a muddy shoreline deposit gradually being trasngressed by low-energy brackish marine water"
• "The track-yielding bed comprises rootlets and dessication cracks and Diplocraterion in a wavy bedded (wave rippled) mudstone superimposed by lenticularly bedded mudstone."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: salvage, surface (in situ),

• found in 1990 or before

Primary reference: G. Gierlinski and A. Ahlberg. 1994. Late Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaur footprints in the Höganäs Formation of southern Sweden. Ichnos 3:99-105 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83327: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
"Grallator (Eubrontes) soltykovensis" = Kayentapus soltykovensis
"Grallator (Eubrontes) soltykovensis" = Kayentapus soltykovensis Gierlinski 1991 theropod
 Ichnofossils -
Diplocraterion sp.
Diplocraterion sp. Torell 1870