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 B, calcareous sandstone; 'dating with the aid of foraminifera and belemnites gives an age around the Early/Middle Santonian boundary'

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, calcareous sandstone

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 70316: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.03.2007

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