Rink Dal Locality 31-909: Holocene, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Portlandia arctica (Gray 1824)
C category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Macoma calcarea (Gmelin 1792)
C category
recombined as Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna occulta (Mighels and Adams 1842)
R category
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 70.1° North, 54.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:70.1° North, 54.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: 3.8m above sea level
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Shell-bearing marine deposits
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:GCI 74-909
Database number:75209
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Bulinski
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-09-26 10:52:05 Last modified:2007-09-26 13:52:05
Access level:authorizer only Released:2007-09-26 10:52:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25361. O. Bennike, K.B. Hansen, K.L. Knudsen, D.N. Penney, and K.L. Rasmussen. 1994. Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland. Boreas 23:194-215 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]