GGU 314806 - Albert Heim Bjerge: Dyeran, Greenland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bradoriida
- Svealutidae
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Liangshanella sayutinae
(Melnikova 1988)
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
Bradoriida
- Indianidae
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Indiana secunda
(Matthew 1895)
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
Bradoriida
- Hipponicharionidae
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Albrunnicola sp.
Martinsson 1979
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
Agnostida
- Calodiscidae
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Calodiscus lobatus
(Hall 1847)
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
Aculifera
- Halkieriidae
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Ocruranus sp.
Liu 1979
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Peel and Skovsted 2005 | 5 specimens | |||||
Helcionelloida
- Pelagiellida
- Pelagiellidae
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Pelagiella subangulata
(Tate 1892)
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
Helcionelloida
- Helcionellida
- Helcionellidae
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Mackinnonia taconica
(Landing and Bartowski 1996)
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
recombined as Davidonia taconica | |||||||
Helcionelloida
- Helcionellida
- Rugaeconidae
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? Xianfengella cf. yatesi
Parkhaev 2001
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Peel and Skovsted 2005 | 2 specimens | |||||
Mickwitziidae
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Mickwitzia cf. occidens
Walcott 1908
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Skovsted and Holmer 2003 | ||||||
Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Botsfordiidae
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Botsfordia caelata
(Hall 1847)
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Hyolithida
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Hyolithida indet.
Mathew 1962
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
Orthothecida
- Circothecidae
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Conotheca australiensis
Bengtson et al. 1990
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Malinky and Skovsted 2004 | ||||||
unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Klein 1754
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
Coeloscleritophora
- Chancelloriida
- Chancelloriidae
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Chancelloriidae indet.
Walcott 1920
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
Hyolithelminthida
- Hyolithellidae
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Hyolithellus micans
(Billings 1871)
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Skovsted 2006 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Greenland |
Coordinates: | 74.1° North, 23.0° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 30.8° South, 48.9° West |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Series 2 |
10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 2-3 | ||
Key time interval: | Dyeran | ||
Age range of interval: | 514.80000 - 511.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Bastion | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: SPECIFIC COMMENTS: Collection is from the limestone unit, stratigraphically midway up the Bastion Formation. Same stratigraphic height as GGU 31805-7 and GGU 31835
GENERAL COMMENTS: The Kloftelv Formation is overlain by the fossiliferous Bastion and Ella Island foramtions, both of middle Dyerian age (late Early Camrbian, equivalent of the Botomian). The Bastion Formation is 150 m thick at Athe Albert Heim Bjerge locality is mainly galuconite-rich sandstone and siltstone in the lower part and shale with minor carbonate in its upper part. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Limestone. | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Geology comments: The Bastion and Ella Island Formations from part of a thick succession of shallow-marine Proterozoic-Ordovician sediments deposited on the Laurentian shelf. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | bulk,chemical,acetic,sieve,field collection,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Rock samples were dissolve in buffered 10 percent acetic acid to retrieve acid-resistent microfossils. The resulting residues were sieved and the heavy mineral fraction separated using sodium polytungstate. All specimens are housed in the Geological Museum in Copenhagen (MGUH) | |
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Brachiopoda. The residues of the acid-digested samples contain a well-preserved and diverse small shelly fauna including helcionellid molluscs, coelosclerites, lapworthellids, and problematic fossils. Add Gubanov et al. press and Skovsted in press (at the time of April, 2005) for complete fauna - references in current reference. |
Metadata
Database number: | 49459 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy, P. Wagner | Enterer: | A. Hendy, P. Wagner |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2005-04-16 12:29:31 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-16 12:29:31 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13228. | C. B. Skovsted and L.E. Holmer. 2005. Early Cambrian brachiopods from north-east Greenland. Palaeontology 48(2):325-345 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
24779 | J. M. Malinky and C.B. Skovsted. 2004. Hyoliths and small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian of North−East Greenland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(4):551-578 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
16626 | J. S. Peel and C. B. Skovsted. 2005. Problematic cap-shaped fossils from the Lower Cambrian of North-East Greenland. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 79(4):461-470 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
26496 | C. Skovsted and L. Holmer. 2003. The Early Cambrian (Botomian) stem group brachiopod Mickwitzia from Northeast Greenland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(1):1-20 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
19364 | C. B. Skovsted. 2006. Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland. Journal of Paleontology 80(6):1087-1112 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |