GGU 319543 J. P. Koch Fjord (Cambrian to of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.8° N, 42.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 49.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Buen Formation, Atdabanian to Atdabanian (520.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• highest shales of Buen Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby. 1986. Cambrian and Silurian sponges from North Greenland. Rapport Groenlands Geologiske Undersoegelse 132:51-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121184: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Choiidae
Choia hindei Dawson 1896 demosponge
  - Vauxiidae
? Vauxia gracilenta Walcott 1920 demosponge