Amdrup Land G337: Artinskian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Helodontiformes - Helodontidae
"Helodus" sp. Agassiz 1838
Chondrichthyes - Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
"Cladodus" sp. Agassiz 1843
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 80.6° North, 15.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.5° North, 14.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Artinskian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Artinskian
Age range of interval:290.10000 - 283.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Upper Marine
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Local "Athyris" amdrupi brachiopod zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray lithified calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: Light grey, calciferous sandstone (weathering yellowish grey, in some cases with rust-brown blotches) which contains a rich fauna including brachiopods, gastropods, bryozoans and elasmobranchs with durophagous dentition.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:90246
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-07-15 09:06:57 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2009-07-15 09:06:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30299. S. E. Bendix-Almgreen. 1975. Fossil fishes from the marine late Palaeozoic of Holm Land-Amdrup Land, north-east Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 195(9):1-38 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]