Eriksdal, Skåne, VC11 bed (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Where: Skåne, Sweden (55.6° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 20.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vitabäck Clays Member (Annero Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• Bed VC11

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; claystone

• mesohaline conditions, and the sediments may originate from a lagoonal setting

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. Schwarz-Wings, J. Rees, and J. Lindgren. 2009. Lower Cretaceous Mesoeucrocodylians from Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden). Cretaceous Research 30:1345-1355 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 118043: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 04.10.2011, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
cf. Celtedens sp.
cf. Celtedens sp. McGowan and Evans 1995 tetrapod
LO8614t (partial left dentary), LO8613t (dentary with tooth), LO8615t (right articular)
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Mesoeucrocodylia indet.
Mesoeucrocodylia indet. Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 crocodilian
Teeth and osteoderms (LO: Department of Geology, Lund University)
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Viviparus sp.
Viviparus sp. Montfort 1810 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Neomiodon sp.