Astarte Kloft section (Bed 2) (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.6° N, 22.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 5.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• "Charmouthian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone

• 1.75m thick, conglomeratic calcareous sandstone with many fossils

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Rosenkrantz in August, 1926

• Repository: (presumed) University of Coppenhagen

Primary reference: A. Rosenkrantz. 1934. The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part 1. Meddelelser Om Gronland 110(1):4-122 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162079: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 19.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha decorata Münster 1837 clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam
Tancredia n. sp. A
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya ambigua Sowerby 1819 clam
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia listeri Sowerby 1817 clam
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia aff. liasina clam
Venericardia? aff. liasina
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys cf. textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop