Kai Ingemann Schnetler
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Projects:

1. The molluscs from the Klintinghoved Formation (Early Miocene)

Sorgenfrei (1940) monographed the molluscan fauna and recorded 63 species and a new crab species. Since then, further collecting have increased the number of species to more than 130. The clay on the locality is a glacial floe in the moraine and the only locality with Klintinghoved Clay exposed. The study of the fauna is carried on in cooperation with Dr. Ronald Janssen, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt a. M. and Mogens S. Nielsen, Odense.

Janssen, R., Schnetler, K.I. & Nielsen, M.S. (in preparation): The Molluscs from the Klintinghoved Formation (Early Miocene) at Klintinghoved, Denmark.

 

Stenomphalus wiechmanni                 Searlesia mitgaui                                   Sveltia lyrata             Orthosurcula steinvorthi

2. Xenophoridae with atached objects, mostly gastropods, in situ from the Cretaceous of Denmark and the Cretaceous and Paleocene of Denmark and the Netherlands

In the Cretaceous of Denmark and the Cretaceous and Danian of the Netherlands specimens of the genus Xenophora with attached objects, mostly gastropods, in situ have been encountered. The study is carried out in cooperation with Henrik Madsen and Jan Audun Rasmussen from the Moler Museum and John W.M. Jagt and Paul van Knippenberg from the Netherlands.

Schnetler, K.I., Madsen, H., Rasmussen, J.A., Jagt, J. & van Knippenberg, P. (in preparation): Late Cretaceous and Early Palaeocene Xenophoridae with attached foreign objects, especially molluscs, in situ from Denmark and the Netherlands

3. The molluscs from the Viborg Formation (Early Oligocene)

Ravn (1907) recorded molluscs from e.g. Ulstrup and considered them to be from Middle Oligocene. Now, the Oligocene is divided into Early and Later Oligocene. Ravn also assigned the clay from Branden to the same formation, but Schnetler & Palm (2008) described the Branden Clay fauna and assigned it to the Late Oligocene. The Viborg Formation was established by Christensen & Ulleberg (1973), but its mollusc fauna has not yet been monographed.

Schnetler, K.I. & Heilmann-Clausen, C. (in preparation): The molluscs of the Viborg Formation (Early Oligocene) of Denmark.

Cassidaria depressa          Aquilofusus sp.                      Orthosurcula regularis                 Cyclocardia kickxii. Normal and inverted hinge.

            

4. The molluscs from the Brejning Formation in its type area

The study is carried out in cooperation with Mogens S. Nielsen, Odense. Brejning is the type locality for the Vejle Fjord Formation. The youngest member (the Brejning Clay) is known from other localities and contains a rich molluscan fauna, about 200 species from Mogenstrup (Schnetler & Beyer 1990) and 145 from Nørre Vissing (Schnetler & Beyer 1987). The Brejning Clay was raised to formation rank in 2010 by Rasmussen et al. (2010).

Schnetler, K.I. & Nielsen, M.S. (in preparation): The molluscan fauna of the Brejning Formation (Late Oligocene) in its type area.

Stenomphalus koeneni