unit 12A, Nyeboe: Llandovery - Wenlock, Greenland
collected by Allaart, Dawes 1965-
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Pentamerida
- Pentameridae
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? Harpidium sp.
Kirk 1925
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Bucaniidae
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Megalomphala sp.
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Kionoceratidae
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Kionoceras sp.
Hyatt 1884
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Chiozoon sp.
Lane 1972
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Styginidae
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Ligiscus arcanus
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Lane 1984 | ||||||
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Favositidae
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Favosites sp.
Lamarck 1816
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Geography
| Country: | Greenland |
| Coordinates: | 81.5° North, 57.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.7° North, 26.7° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Silurian |
| Key time interval: | Llandovery - Wenlock |
| Age range of interval: | 443.80000 - 427.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: pale weathering, grey limestones, variously mottled, veined and in place brecciated | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Allaart, Dawes | Collection dates: | 1965-66 |
| Taxonomic list comments:Also contains crinoids, orthocone nautiloids, stromatoporoids, stropheodontids, dubarids, atrypacean, and pentamerid brachiopods | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | GGU 82109-29; Locality 6 of Lane 1984 | ||
| Database number: | 188529 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
| Modifier: | M. Hopkins | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-09-06 11:05:08 | Last modified: | 2017-09-06 11:06:31 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-09-06 11:05:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63227. | P. R. Dawes and J. S. Peel. 1984. Biostratigraphic reconnaissance in the Lower Palaeozoic of western North Greenland. Rapport, Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 121:19-51 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |
Secondary references:
| 63226 | P. D. Lane. 1984. Silurian trilobites from Hall Land and Nyeboe Land, western Greenland. Rapport, Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 121:53-75 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |