Reasons for a name

The Selandian was introduced in scientific literature by Alfred Rosenkrantz in 1924. It is named after the Danish island of Zealand (Danish: Sjælland), consisting of fossiliferous glauconitic marls (Lellinge Greensand and Kerteminde Marl) overlain by unfossiliferous grey clay. The succession unconformably overlied Danian chalks and limestones, containing clasts derived from these units in its basal part.

The island of Zealand, Sjælland in Danish; marked is the type area of the Lellinge Greensand Fm.
The island of Zealand, Sjælland in Danish; marked is the type area of the Lellinge Greensand Fm.
Alfred Rosenkrantz (1898-1974), member of the Danish Geological Society since 1917, while based at the Mineralogisk Museum from 1919 to 1925, worked at the stratigraphy of the area around Copenhagen.
Cucullaea dewalquei, a bivalve of the Lellinge Greensand Fm.
Cucullaea dewalquei, a bivalve of the Lellinge Greensand Fm.
Alfred Rosenkrantz (1898-1974), the Danish geologist who named the Selandian in 1924.
Alfred Rosenkrantz (1898-1974), the Danish geologist who named the Selandian in 1924.
Learn more Asgaard U. (1975). Alfred Rosenkrantz, 11.11.1898-8.7.1974. Dansk Geologisk Forening, Årsskrift for 1975, 46-53. Rosenkrantz A. (1924). De københavnske Grønsandslag og deres Placering i den danske Lagrække. Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 6, 1–39.