Abstract
The articulate brachiopod Terebratulina chrysalis is very common in the Upper Cretaceous chalk of northern Europe and in the Danian chalk, bryozoan limestone and coralline-bryozoan limestone mounds of Denmark. It was one of the few brachiopod species that survived the mass extinction at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary and it belongs to a long-lived group of closely related Cretaceous–Recent species. It represents a non-specialised generalist which with a rootlike pedicle was able to attach itself to a great variety of both hard and soft substrates. The great adaptability is probably the main reason for its evolutionary success. This is the first systematic study concerning brachiopods from the Kerteminde Marl Formation in Denmark. Hitherto Terebratulina chrysalis is the only known brachiopod from the Gundstrup blocks, referred to the Kerteminde Marl.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark |
| Vol/bind | 73 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 89-98 |
| Antal sider | 10 |
| ISSN | 0011-6297 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - 2024 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:AES wishes to thank for access to camera setups at the Zoological Museum, the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen University. We cordially thank Bent Erik Kramer Lindow for digitizing and assigning collection numbers to the five specimens after they were declared Danekr\u00E6 fossil trove. AES and FS acknowledge office space and access to other equipment at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copen-hagen. We are grateful to S\u00F8ren Skibsted for discussion and very useful information on the geology of the Gundstrup gravel pit and to the fossil hunters Mette Hofstedt, Peter Tang Mortensen and Mogens Stentoft Nielsen. We thank Claus Heilmann-Clausen, Michael Houmark-Nielsen and Peder Sandersen for information and valuable discussion. Special thanks are directed to Peter Tang Mortensen for useful com-ments on the occurrence and possible source of the Gundstrup blocks. Journal reviewers Alfr\u00E9d Dulai and Anne Mehlin S\u00F8rensen are thanked for useful comments.
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