ammonites
Fur Formation (Eocene of Denmark)

Where: Denmark (56.8° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.3° N, 5.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fur Formation, Ypresian (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• formation includes "more than 170 layers of volcanic ash" and two have been dated at "54.5 and 54.0 MYA" by "39/Ar/40Ar-dating" and the "underlying Stolleklint Clay Member of the Olst Formation" includes the Paleocene/Eocene boundary

•no details about the position of fossils in the formation are given at all

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; concretionary, volcaniclastic, argillaceous diatomite

• "deposited at water depths below the storm wave base, under anoxic or slightly oxic bottom conditions"
• formation consists of "fine-grained diatomite sediment, which consists of 45-65 weight per cent diatoms, 30-45 per cent clay minerals and approximately 10 percent volcanic dust"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, concretion

Collection methods: most material is in the University of Copenhagen's Geologisk Museum (MGUH)

Primary reference: B. E. K. Lindow and G. J. Dyke. 2006. Bird evolution in the Eocene: climate change in Europe and a Danish fossil fauna. Biological Reviews (Cambridge) 81(4):483-499 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84460: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.10.2008, edited by Jered Karr

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