Locality 27, unit B2, Kap København (Pleistocene of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.3° N, 24.1° W: paleocoordinates 82.3° N, 23.0° W)

• 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: offshore; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

• "below storm wave base on a marine shelf"

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 160147: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Oreodytes alpinus Paykull 1798 predaceous diving beetle
Oreodytes alpinus/laevis
Hydroporus sp. Clairville 1806 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Carabidae indet. Latreille 1802 ground beetle
Pterostichus spp. Bonelli 1810 ground beetle
Pterostichus (Cryobius) spp. Chaudoir 1838 ground beetle
"Pterostichus vermiculosus" = Pterostichus (Lenapterus) vermiculosus Ménétriés 1851 ground beetle
Bembidion spp. Latreille 1802 ground beetle
"Bembidion cf. sordidum" = Bembidion (Asioperyphus) sordidum Kirby 1837 ground beetle
Notiophilus spp. Duméril 1805 ground beetle
Notiophilus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
cf. Chrysolina sp. Moltschulsky 1860 leaf beetle
Hydrothassa cf. hannoveriana Fabricius 1775 leaf beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Grypus equiseti Fabricius 1775 snout beetle