Dania quarry, Arhus (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (56.7° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.2° N, 8.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnella kazimiroviensis other zone, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Argyrotheca stevensis-Magas chitoniformis brachiopod zone, uppermost Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen (MGUH)

Primary reference: T. Birkelund. 1993. Ammonites from the Maastrichtian White Chalk of Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 40(1-2):33-81 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67340: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.11.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Epicymatoceras vaelsense1 Binkhorst 1862 nautiloid
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites vertebralis Lamarck 1801 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Hoploscaphites constrictus Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Saghalinites sp. n. sp. Wright and Matsumoto 1954 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Anapachydiscus terminus2 Ward and Kennedy 1993 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae