Kopinge: Early/Lower Campanian, Sweden
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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Persson 1960 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| skull fragment, tooth, LM, LO 1671 t (orig. ID Mosasaurus scanicus) | ||||||||||
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Hainosaurus sp.
Dollo 1885
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Sweden | County: | Skane |
| Coordinates: | 55.5° North, 13.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.9° North, 14.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kopinge Sandstone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Age: The 'Kipinge sandstone' has been recorded from a number of small outcrops, the majority of which are not accessible today, northeast of the town of Ystad. Christensen (1986) recorded two belemnite assemblages from the area, i.e., an older one comprising Belemnellocamax mammillatus (Nilsson, 1826) and Belemnitella mucronata (Schlottheim, 1813), and a younger one with B. mucronata and Belemnitella aff. langei Jeletzky, 1948. Ammonites from the Kopinge district indicate an early late Campanian age (Kennedy and Christensen, 1997)." | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Abundance in sediment: | rare |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Kopinge Molla, Persson locality no. 11 | ||
| Database number: | 102884 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | H. Street |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-01-20 08:19:49 | Last modified: | 2021-03-22 07:46:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-01-20 08:19:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34814. | J. Lindgren. 2005. The first record of Hainosaurus (Reptilia: Mosasauridae) from Sweden. Journal of Paleontology 79(6):1157-1165 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |
Secondary references:
| 35504 | P. O. Persson. 1960. Reptiles from the Senonian (U Cret) of Scania (S Sweden). Arkiv for Mineralogi och Geologi 2(35):431-478 [M. Carrano/H. Street] |