NW spur of Profilbjerg Unit 4 (Triassic of Greenland)

Also known as Section A

Where: Greenland (71.7° N, 22.9° W: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wordie Creek Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; concretionary, calcareous shale and medium-grained, calcareous sandstone

• 15m grey to black crumbling shales, more or less calcareous, with large limestone concretions and thin, irregularly shaped layers of medium-grained calcareous sandstones passing into ammonoid coquinas

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. Grasmuck and R. Trümpy. 1969. Triassic stratigraphy and general geology of the country around Fleming Fjord. Meddeleser om Grønland 168(2):1-77 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48037: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 11.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
Hypophiceras gracile
Hypophiceras gracile Spath 1930 ceratite
The Glyptophiceras species and Metophiceras subdemissum listed in the text have all been synonomyzied by Tozer
 Ceratitida - Ophiceratidae
Ophiceras compressum, Ophiceras spathi
Ophiceras compressum Spath 1935 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Otoceratidae
"Otoceras boreale" = Otoceras woodwardi
"Otoceras boreale" = Otoceras woodwardi Griesbach 1880 ceratite
Bivalvia
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"Bakewellia aff. exporrecta" = Bakevellia
"Bakewellia aff. exporrecta" = Bakevellia clam
The presence of Bakewellia indicates Triassic not Permian beds
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Claraia sp.
Claraia sp. Bittner 1901 scallop