ammonites
A/S Carl Nielsen's sand pit, lower sands (Cretaceous of Denmark)

Also known as C N pit, Robbedale

Where: Bornholm, Denmark (55.1° N, 14.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 21.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tornhøj Member (Jydegaard Formation), Late/Upper Berriasian (145.5 - 140.2 Ma)

• sandy beds 2-3 m above the Neomiodon Bed; "Ryazanian" age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; sandstone and claystone

• "beach sand or...littoral sand" in a lagoonal/barrier island setting

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1980s-2004

Collection methods: bulk, salvage, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

• some elements collected over the past 25 years, but much in 2000-2004 under the aegis of the "Fossil Project'

Primary reference: J. Rees. 2000. An Early Cretaceous scincomorph lizard dentary from Bornholm, Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 48:105-109 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68331: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 16.01.2007, edited by Philip Mannion