Asuk Locality 21-873 (Pleistocene of Greenland)

Also known as GCI 74-873

Where: Greenland (70.2° N, 53.5° W: paleocoordinates 70.2° N, 53.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• no formation given 150m above sea level

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• found in situ
• till

Primary reference: O. Bennike, K.B. Hansen, K.L. Knudsen, D.N. Penney, and K.L. Rasmussen. 1994. Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland. Boreas 23:194-215 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75172: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 25.09.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
"Yoldia hyperborea" = Yoldia (Yoldia) hyperborea
"Yoldia hyperborea" = Yoldia (Yoldia) hyperborea Gould 1841 clam
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle