Where: Greenland (82.5° N, 40.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.9° N, 26.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Ymers Gletscher Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
• Was Silurian Carbonate or Silurian Limestone formation, but Siveter & Lane (1999: p. 6) note that it is Ymers Gletscher Formation
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and dolomite
Size class: microfossils
Primary reference: H. A. Armstrong. 1990. Conodonts from the Upper Ordovician–lower Silurian carbonate platform of North Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 159:1-151 [E. Jarochowska/E. Jarochowska]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 183171: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.12.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
"Aspelundia expansa" = Pseudolonchodina expansa
"Aspelundia expansa" = Pseudolonchodina expansa Armstrong 1990 conodont | |
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Ozarkodina "sp. C" Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont |