Where: Greenland (82.5° N, 24.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 82.2° N, 19.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kap København Formation, Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• Kap København Formation and the Fishcreekian are considered to be correlative and slightly younger than the Cibicides grossa zone (c. 2.5 Ma), approximately c. 2.4 Ma at the Praetiglian/Tiglian bundary. Age estimate based on foraminifer fauna pointing to Plio-Pleistocene age, reversed paleomagnetism in fine-grained part of the sequence supporting correlation with Matuyama Chron and amino acid racemization of bivalve shells.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Primary reference: J. Böcher. 1995. Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience 33:1-82 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160144: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2014

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