Arnager Bay (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Where: Bornholm, Denmark (55.1° N, 14.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 21.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Skyttegaard Member (Rabekke Formation), Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• = Skyttegård; section is part of the type locality of this member but not at the type section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; carbonaceous siltstone and lenticular, gray, red, silty claystone

• "a thin, lens-shaped bed within the carbonaceous claystones and siltstones"; "lenses of light greyt to almost brick-red silty clay stone...a prominent lenticular bed, up to 15 cm thick and about 10 m wide"

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Lindgren, J. Rees, M. Siverson and G. Cuny. 2004. The first Mesozoic mammal from Scandinavia. GFF 126:325-330 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83134: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.08.2008, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Perinopollenites elatoides
  -
Alisporites
  -
Alisporites spp.1 Daugherty 1941
Algae
  - Botryococcaceae
Botryococcus braunii1 Kutzing 1849
  - Zygnemataceae
Ovoidites spp.1 Krutzsch 1959
Pilosisporites trichopapillosus
  -
Pilosisporites trichopapillosus1 Delcourt and Sprumont 1955
Trilobosporites
  -
Pteridopsida
  -
Deltoidospora spp.1 Miner 1935
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Plicatella spp.1 Maljavkina 1949
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Parvisaccites radiatus1 Couper 1958 podocarp
Callialasporites spp.1 Sukh-Dev 1961 podocarp
Marchantiopsida
 Sphaerocarpales -
Aequitriradites spinulosus1 Cookson and Dettmann 1958
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet.2 frog
MGUH 27481, 27482
 Caudata - Urodela
? Urodela indet.2 salamander
MGUH 27480
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Paulchoffatiidae
? Sunnyodon sp. Kielan-Jaworowska and Ensom 1992 multituberculate
MGUH 27220
Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet.2 Laurenti 1768 reptile
MGUH 27486-27488
 Squamata -
Squamata indet.2 squamates
MGUH 27483-27485
  -
Archosauria indet.3 archosaur
One tooth (MGUH 29127)
 Loricata -
Mesoeucrocodylia indet.3 Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 crocodilian
180 teeth (MGUH 29121 and 179 unnumber specimens), three vertebral centra (MGUH 29122 - 29124), and 24 fragmentary osteoderms (MGUH 29125, and 23 unnumbered specimens)
Bernissartia sp.3 Dollo 1883 crocodilian
10 teeth (MGUH 29103 - 29108, and 4 unnumbered specimens)
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholis sp.3 Owen 1842 crocodilian
Five teeth (MGUH 29118 - 29120 and two unnumbered teeth)
 Loricata - Atoposauridae
Theriosuchus sp.3 Owen 1878 crocodilian
Teeth (MGUH)
 Theropoda -
Maniraptora indet.1 Gauthier 1986 maniraptoran
MGUH 28410a-d
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.1 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
MGUH 28403-28409
 Eosuchia -
Lepidosauria indet.2 lepidosaur
MGUH 27489