Also known as Island of Mors; Sundby

Where: Denmark (56.9° N, 8.7° E: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stolleklint Clay Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene to Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 48.6 Ma)

• Sundby layer, in the lower part of the Stolleklint Clay

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lenticular, gray mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• Approximately 100 kg of clay was sampled and then left to dry. This was subsequently immersed in water and screenwashed using a sieve with a mesh size of 1 mm.

Primary reference: H. V. Kristensen, G. Cuny, A. R. Rasmussen and H. Madsen. 2012. Earliest record of the fossil snake Palaeophis from the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in Denmark. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 183(6):621-625 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138441: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.01.2013

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