Amdrup Land M115 (Carboniferous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (80.7° N, 18.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Profusulinella priscoidea foram zone, Lower Marine Group, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• Hard, fine-grained light grey limestone which contains numerous foraminiferans and some crinoid remains

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90245: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Ctenacanthus sp. Agassiz 1836 elasmobranch