Where: Greenland (74.5° N, 20.1° W: paleocoordinates 58.7° N, 12.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Albrechts Bugt Member (Palnatokes Bjerg Formation), Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• Albrechts Bugt Member is 18 m thick, the upper 5 m are transitional towards the overlying Rodryggen Member.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, calcareous mudstone and lithified, silty mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Alsen and J. Mutterlose. 2009. The Early Cretaceous of north-east Greenland: a crossroads of belemnite migration. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 280:168-182 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97567: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Hibolithes jaculoides belemnite
Hibolithes caroli belemnite | |
Pseudobelus aff. brevis belemnite
Pseudobelus bipartitus Blainville 1827 belemnite | |
Bivalvia | |
Buchia sp. Rouillier 1845 scallop | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 |