Where: Greenland (70.2° N, 22.1° W: paleocoordinates 66.8° N, 12.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kap Dalton Group, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Cyrena beds" of the Kap Dalton series, which overlies the Kap Dalton series (Paleogene) AGE: Paleogene, on the basis of crude biostratigraphy; reassigned on the basis of known age ranges from more recent literature; reassigned to Late Eocene by enterer. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the 15 m thick Cyrena bed b.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, brown, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors from the 1951 Danish Expedition to East Greenland, including L. Koch, D. Mackney, and F. Sherrell (University of Bristol). REPOSITORY: MMC?
Primary reference: M. Y. Hassan. 1953. Tertiary faunas from Kap Brewstwer, East Greenland. Meddeleser om Grønland 111(5):1-42 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88289: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula brewsterensis Hassan 1953 nut clam | |
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
"Panopaea intermedia" = Panopea intermedia
"Panopaea intermedia" = Panopea intermedia Sowerby 1814 clam | |
Cyrena cf. gravesi Deshayes 1824 clam | |
"Macrocallista proxima" = Callista (Microcallista) proxima, "Macrocallista fallax" = Dosiniopsis fallax
"Macrocallista proxima" = Callista (Microcallista) proxima Deshayes 1857 venus clam
"Macrocallista fallax" = Dosiniopsis fallax Deshayes 1857 venus clam | |
Corbicula cf. britannica Wood 1877 clam |