Pautut Locality 3VB (Cretaceous to of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.3° N, 54.5° W: paleocoordinates 59.7° N, 14.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pautut Formation, Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; red siltstone

• This cycle appears to represent a depositional position intermediate between the near shore prodelta and the more basinward bay sediments. These cycles have a thickness and color closer resembling that of teh PRP cycle but with a slightly differnet fossil content. Marine organisms and conifer stems and cones are present but few in number. The angiosperm leaf species represented are the same riparian species as in the near shore cycles but with a greater number of specimens than in those cycles.
• The sediments of the 3V sequence, and that of most of the Pautut area, are represented mostly as coarsening upward cycles. Tha vary randomly between 2 and 6 meters in thickness. The basal unit of a cycle typically is a thin, not more than 2 cm thick, and horizontally bedded white clay or siltstone sometimes containing closely packed, wood impressions all oriented with a singular lineation.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original carbon, replaced with carbon

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. Boyd. 1992. Revision of the Late Cretaceous Pautut Flora from West Greenland: Gymnospermopsida (Cycadales, Cycadeoidales, Caytoniales, Ginkgoales, Coniferales). Palaeontographica Abteilung B 225:105-172 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23417: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Heather Lindon on 15.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Brachyphyllum cf. macrocarpum Newberry 1896
Newb.
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
? Ginkgo sp. Linnaeus 1771 ginkgo
 Coniferales -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Moriconia cyclotoxon Debey and Ettingshausen 1859 yew
Debey et. Ett.