western arm of anticline, Ella Island ( of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (72.8° N, 25.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° S, 35.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Symphysurina woosteri trilobite zone, Antiklinalbugt Formation, Skullrockian (487.5 - 482.3 Ma)

• Was Cass Fjord

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, green shale and lithified conglomerate

• "soft, greyish-green shales alternating with intraformational conglomerate and a few limestone beds." Fossils found in the matrix of the conglomerate.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Poulsen and S. Hansen

Primary reference: C. Poulsen. 1937. On the Lower Ordovician faunas of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 119(3):1-72 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122109: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 17.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Ophiograptus inexpectans, "hydrophorid" indet.
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
? Bryograptus sp., "Clonograptus cf. tenellus" = Adelograptus tenellus
"Clonograptus cf. tenellus" = Adelograptus tenellus Linnarsson 1871 graptolite
var. callavei
Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
"Hystricurus armatus" = Millardicurus armatus
"Hystricurus armatus" = Millardicurus armatus Poulsen 1937 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Symphysurina cf. woosteri
Symphysurina cf. woosteri Ulrich and Walcott 1924 trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulepis tenuilineata n. sp.
Lingulepis tenuilineata n. sp. Poulsen 1937
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Eoorthis sp.
Eoorthis sp. Walcott 1908
Gastropoda
 Eogastropoda - Sinuopeidae
Sinuopea whittardi, "? Rhachopea indet." = Schizopea
Sinuopea whittardi Poulsen 1937 snail
"? Rhachopea indet." = Schizopea Butts 1926 snail