Where: Greenland (70.6° N, 53.2° W: paleocoordinates 60.2° N, 14.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 533-548 m above sea level; upper part of the Lower Campanian (Baculites obtusus Zone)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: 'Most of the material described in this paper was collected during the Nugssuaq Expeditions in 1938-1939 and during the current geological mapping of Svartenhuk and Nugssuaq under the auspices of the Geological Survey of Greenland. Both were carried out under the leadership of Professor A. Rosenkrantz.' The author himself joined two of the expeditions.

•Museum repositories: MMH

Primary reference: T. Birkelund. 1965. Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of West Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 179(7):1-192 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70213: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)