Where: Greenland (81.0° N, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 29.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cape Schuchert Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
• Monograptus triangularis to M. convolutus biozones.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; black, calcareous, cherty/siliceous mudstone
Primary reference: A. T. Thomas and P. D. Lane. 1999. Trilobite assemblages of the North Atlantic Region. in A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson, eds. Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian. Cambridge University Press, Cambrdige 444-457. [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 23053: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Graptolithina | |
Graptolithina indet. graptolite | |
Lingulata | |
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Strophomenata | |
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Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Trilobita | |
? Opoa sp. Lane 1972 trilobite | |
Bumastus sp. Murchison 1839 trilobite
Stenopareia sp. Holm 1886 trilobite | |
Pseudoproetus sp. Poulson 1934 trilobite | |
Aulacopleura sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Acernaspis sp. Campbell 1967 trilobite | |
Encrinuroides sp. Reed 1931 trilobite
Cromus sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite | |
Cheirurus sp. Beyrich 1845 trilobite | |
Scotoharpes sp. Lamont 1948 trilobite | |
Leonaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 |