Geographical Society Island, Locality 8 (Cretaceous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (72.9° N, 22.5° W: paleocoordinates 55.1° N, 4.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, micaceous, black shale

• soft, black micaceous shales or their more or less metamorphosed representatives, including good examples of spotted rocks. Intrusions of dolerite are abundant throughout the area. Ironstone nodules at Locality 1 and nearby

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D.T. Donovan, I. H. Ford in 1947

• Material collected as part of Lauge Koch's 1947 expedition to the island. Repository is unknown.

Primary reference: D. T. Donovan. 1949. Observations on the Mesozoic Rocks of Geographical Society O, East Greenland. Meddeleser Om Gronland 149(5):3-13 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160914: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 30.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Spatangidae indet.
Spatangidae indet. Gray 1825 heart urchin
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
Arcthoplites sp.
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia sp.
Puzosia sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea nana
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina gryphaeoides
Aucellina gryphaeoides Sowerby 1836 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium cf. orbicularis
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Variamussium sp." = Parvamussium
"Variamussium sp." = Parvamussium Sacco 1897 mud scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya decussata
Pholadomya decussata Mantell 1822 clam