Vilsund 3 (Oligocene of Denmark)

Also known as Sundby Syd

Where: Denmark (56.9° N, 8.6° E: paleocoordinates 56.8° N, 5.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Branden Clay Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: K. I. Schnetler, H. Madsen, K. K. Sliwinska, C. Heilmann-Clausen, and K. Ulleberg. 2024. A late Oligocene molluscan fauna and Oligocene coastal outcrops from Vilsund, NW Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 73:1-40 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 234518: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.04.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
  - Chilostomellidae
 Globigerinacea -
"Globigerinacea sp." = Globigerinaceae
"Globigerinacea sp." = Globigerinaceae Carpenter et al. 1862
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
Gyroidinoides sp. Reiss 1963
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Dinophyceae
  -
 Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
 Gonyaulacales - Areoligeraceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
 Gonyaulacales -
 Gonyaulacales - Cladopyxiaceae