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
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
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Actinopteri | |
Pycnodontidae indet.1 Agassiz 1833
Anomoeodus sp.1 Forir 1887 | |
Protosphyraena sp.1 Leidy 1857 | |
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"Cretalamna borealis" = Cretolamna borealis4
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Paraorthacodus conicus Davis 1890 elasmobranch | |
Cephalopoda | |
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"Actinocamax verus" = Belemnitella vera2
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