Projects:

1. A Late Oligocene mollusc fauna from a coastal cliff at Vilsund on Mors

The study has been carried out in cooperation with Henrik Madsen, Moler Museet. A rich Late Oligocene mollusc fauna has been found in a coastal cliff at Vilsund on Mors. The study is in progress and more than 120 mollusc species have been recorded.

Schnetler, K.I. & Madsen, H. (in preparation): A Late Oligocene molluscan fauna from a coastal cliff south of Vilsund on Mors, Jutland, Denmark.

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

4. 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.

5. 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.