Milne Land M31/10 (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 55.0° N, 11.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Oxfordian zone, Aldinger Elv Member (Kap Leslie Formation), Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Birkelund, T. et al. 1984: Gronlands geol. Undersog. 147

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: F. T. Fürsich. 1999. Unpublished data. [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1496: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Franz Fursich on 07.05.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• ammonites counted but not identified
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
ammonites
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Ampullina sp. Férussac 1822 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes broenlundi Ravn 1911 scallop
Camptonectes auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus strajeskianus d'Orbigny 1845 mussel
 Pterioida -
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya literata Sowerby 1819 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia striatula Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
 Anomalodesmata -
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Ditrupa sp. Berkeley 1835