Where: Greenland (70.4° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 5.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cape Stewart Beds Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)
• Callovian according to the author, based on resemblance to the fauna of Kuhn Island (repeated in the Index of Statigraphy of North America 1912 pg. 547).
•Revised as Charmouthian (Pliensbachian) by Rosenkrantz.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, quartzose, calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: B. Lundgren. 1895. Jurafossil fran Kap Stewart i Ost-Gronland. Meddelelser om Gronland 7:191-214 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 161209: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 02.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cardinia hybrida Sowerby 1817 clam | |
Mactromya groenlandica Rosenkrantz 1934 clam |