Where: Greenland (82.4° N, 24.2° W: paleocoordinates 82.3° N, 23.1° 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: 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 160163: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Camponotus cf. herculeanus Linnaeus 1758 ant | |
"Agabus bifarius" = Agabus (Agabus) bifarius
"Agabus bifarius" = Agabus (Agabus) bifarius Kirby 1837 predaceous diving beetle | |
"Aegialia terminalis" = Aegialia (Psammoporus) terminalis
"Aegialia terminalis" = Aegialia (Psammoporus) terminalis Brown 1931 scarab beetle |