Where: Greenland (70.2° N, 22.1° W: paleocoordinates 67.8° N, 13.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kap Dalton Group, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Coeloma 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; assigned by enterer to Early Oligocene on the basis of age range for Aporrhais speciosa. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the 36 m thick Coeloma bed.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, 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 88287: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia sp. Lamarck 1816 stony coral | |
Malacostraca | |
Coeloma bicarinatum Ravn 1904 crab | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula brewsterensis Hassan 1953 nut clam
Nucula subtransversa Nyst 1844 nut clam
Leionucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam | |
Cyprina praerustica n. sp.
Cyprina praerustica n. sp. Hassan 1953 clam | |
Psammobia cf. plana Deshayes 1860 clam | |
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
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Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Gastropoda | |
Aporrhais speciosa Schlotheim 1820 snail |