GGU 418907, Amdrup Land (Carboniferous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (80.6° N, 16.3° W: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Protriticites ovatus zone, Foldedal Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• 450 m above base

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: V. I. Davydov, I. Nilsson, and L. Stemmerik. 2001. Fusulinid zonation of the Upper Carboniferous Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations, southern Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 48:31-77 [M. Clapham/L. Edwards]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132161: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Lindy Edwards on 09.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Ozawainellidae
Ozawainella sp. Thompson 1935
 Fusulinoidea - Schubertellidae
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Eostaffella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1948
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae