Ullstorp 1 (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Where: Skåne, Sweden (56.1° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 14.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Two beds within the terrigenous siliciclastic sequence; assigned to lowermost Lower Campanian based on belemnites. Macro vertebrate remains are quite common in conglomerate C, which is well exposed forming the quarry floor in the southern part of the pit.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; grainstone and conglomerate

• "a mosaic paralic palaeoenvironment"
• calcarenite/conglomerate; "marine calcarenites interspersed with terrigenous conglomerates"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by M. Siverson in 1990s, 2010–2013

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ), chemical,

• Repository: Lund University

Primary reference: M. Siverson. 1992. Late Cretaceous Paraorthacodus (Palaeospinacidae, Neoselachii) from Sweden. Journal of Paleontology 66:994-1001 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74335: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.08.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Leptoceratopsidae
Leptoceratopsidae indet.2 Nopcsa 1923 leptoceratopsid
RM PZ R1833-R1834
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodontidae indet.1 Agassiz 1833
Anomoeodus sp.1 Forir 1887
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Protosphyraena sp.1 Leidy 1857
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
Archaeolamna kopingensis3 Davis 1890 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias latus3 Davis 1890 sand shark
Carcharias tenuis3 Davis 1890 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
Cretoxyrhina mantelli3 Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Anomotodon hermani3 Siverson 1992 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Eoptolamnidae
Leptostyrax sp.3 Williston 1900 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Paranomotodon sp.3 Herman 1975 thresher shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax kaupi3 Agassiz 1843 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretalamna borealis" = Cretolamna borealis4
"Cretalamna borealis" = Cretolamna borealis4 Priem 1897 mackerel shark
 Synechodontiformes - Paraorthacodontidae
Paraorthacodus conicus Davis 1890 elasmobranch
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida -
 Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
"Actinocamax verus" = Belemnitella vera2
"Actinocamax verus" = Belemnitella vera2 Miller 1823 belemnite
 Belemnitida -