Olympen, Jameson Land: Bathonian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Oppelia (Oxycerites) sp. ()
original and current combination Oxycerites
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Arcticoceras ishmae
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Cylindroteuthis sp.
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus (Retroceramus) sp. Sowerby 1814
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Vaugonia athena n. sp.
10 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 71.4° North, 23.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.0° North, 10.2° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Bathonian Ammonoid zone: Ishmae
Age range of interval:168.30000 - 166.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vardekloft Member:Pelion
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: large sandstone concretions
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:141379
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-26 20:08:26 Last modified:2013-03-26 04:08:26
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-26 20:08:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

45977. T. P. Poulton and J. H. Callomon. 1977. A new species of trigoniid bivalve from the Boreal Bathonian (Jurassic) of central East Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 26:155-159 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]