Where: Sweden (56.8° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.7° N, 12.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Särdal Beds Formation, Early/Lower Santonian to Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• Division A, conglomeratic limestone; 'dating with the aid of foraminifera and belemnites gives an age around the Early/Middle Santonian boundary'
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, conglomeratic grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: authors and amateur collections;
•Museum repositories: Geological Survey of Sweden (EN), the Mineralogical Museum in Copenhagen (MMH), Geological Institute in Lund (LO)
Primary reference: J. Bergström, W. K. Christensen, C. Johansson and E. Norling. 1973. An extension of Upper Cretaceous Rocks to the Swedish west coast at Särdal. Bull. geol. Soc. Denmark 22:83-154 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70314: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Globotruncana marginata Gandolfi 1955
Archaeoglobigerina bosquensis Pessagno 1967 | |
Nodosariata | |
Globothalamea | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Bivalvia | |
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Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite | |
Gonioteuthis ludgreni belemnite | |
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