Ivö Klack (Natural History Museum of Denmark collection) (Cretaceous of Sweden)

Where: Skane, Sweden (56.1° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 14.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnellocamax mammillatus other zone, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• upper Lower Campanian Belemnellocamax mammillatus belemnite zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; carbonate

• rocky shore; water temperatures above 18°C, good oxygenation, limited turbidity, and normal marine salinity
• coarse-grained skeletal carbonates, mainly consist of whole and fragmented skeletons of bivalves, brachiopods, bryozoans and echinoids

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Hägg; A. Rosenkrantz; S. Floris in 1919-1939; 1928; 1963

• Repository: Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen

Primary reference: A. M. Sörensen, S. Floris, and F. Surlyk. 2011. Late Cretaceous scleractinian corals from the rocky shore of Ivö Klack, southern Sweden, including some of the northernmost zooxanthellate corals. Cretaceous Research 32:259-263 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123002: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia "indet. A" Bourne 1900 stony coral
Scleractinia "indet. B" Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Echinophyllia sp. Klunzinger 1879 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acrosmiliidae
Acrosmilia baltica Hennig 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Micrabacia suecica Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Clausastrea "sp. A" d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Clausastrea "sp. B" d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
? Paracyathus sp. Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Parasmilia centralis Mantell 1822 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Dimorphastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
? Dimorphastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral