Holm Land B127 (Carboniferous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (80.2° N, 17.1° W: paleocoordinates 22.5° N, 8.2° 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: marine; lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Medium grey dense limestone (weathering red to red-brown) which, being extremely hard and partly silicified, is almost chert-like in appearance.

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 90247: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodus sp. chimaera