Col. 313115, Loc. 3, J.P. Koch Fjord, Peary Land, Greenland - Babcock 1994 (Cambrian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (81.7° N, 17.8° W: paleocoordinates 20.4° S, 42.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Lejopyge laevigata zone, Kap Stanton Formation, St Davids (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Collections GGU301312, 301313, and 313115 are from the same stratigraphic level.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, pyritic, black, gray mudstone

• mudstone, dark grey or black in color, thin bedding to millimeter thick laminae, and lack of burrowing. Most bedding surfaces are planar and nearly parallel to slightly undulatory and discontinuous. Minor constituents are spar, clay and silt-sized siliclastics, and pyrite.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: Specimens collected by staff and associates of the Geological Survey of Greenland. In addition to the trilobites, some spicules (unknown size) are found in the mudstone along with rare inarticulate brachiopods.

Primary reference: L. E. Babcock. 1994. Systematics and phylogenetics of polymeroid trilobites from the Henson Gletscher and Kap Stanton formations (Middle Cambrian), North Greenland. Bulletin Gronlands geologicske undersohelse 169:79-129 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10489: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 11.05.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Only trilobites are described to genus and species level.
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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Inarticulata
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Inarticulata indet.
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Centropleuridae
Centropleura loveni
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Solenopleura bucculenta
Solenopleura bucculenta Grönwall 1902 trilobite