ammonites
Cerithium Limestone (Stevns Klint) fauna (Paleocene of Denmark)

Also known as Cerithium Limestone (Denmark) fauna

Where: Denmark (57.0° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 7.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cerithium Limestone Formation, Danian (65.5 - 61.7 Ma)

• Stevns Klint. Cerithium Limestone, cut by hardground. Dated by underlying. Danian Fish Clay (P0 foraminiferal zone). Cerithium Limestone contains P0-P1a foraminiferal zone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, burrowed, hardground limestone

• "Induration of the Certium Limestone vaires, increasing gradually from the base (relatively soft) to the top (hard). Relatively low densites of bivalve casts a probably due to spotty lithification in association with penetrating crustacean burrows, resulting in massive hard limestone. Sparite filling occupies voids in less massive parts of limestone"

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original aragonite, original calcite, original silica, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: Some bulk samples processed in the field, remeaning material processed in laboratory. Lab preparation involved "drying, weighing and hammering samples into small prieces. Each piece examined under microscope in search of molds."

Primary reference: C. Heinberg. 1999. Lower Danian bivalves, Stevns Klint, Denmark; continuity across the K/T boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 154:87-106 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35040: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.10.2003, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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