Mt. Eli Fjaeld, south slope (Jurassic of Greenland)

Also known as "Ammonite Mountain"

Where: Greenland (70.8° N, 23.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 5.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• "Charmouthian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, micaceous, brown, gray, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone

• greyish-brown, very calcareous and micaceous, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Tom Harris in 1927

• 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 162099: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 19.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Grandirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Cardiniidae
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam
Cardinia concinna Sowerby 1819 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya ambigua Sowerby 1819 clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850 clam
Tancredia n. sp. A
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis
"Trigonia lingonensis" = Liotrigonia lingonensis Dumortier 1869 clam
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium callosum Lundgren 1895 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis
"Oxytoma inaequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys substriata, "Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus
Chlamys substriata Roemer 1835 scallop
Chlamys substriata rinki
"Aequipecten priscus" = Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop