GGU 218610 & 218611. (Cambrian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.3° N, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 48.5° W)

When: Ovatoryctocara granulata trilobite zone, Henson Gletscher Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Geyer and J. S. Peel. 2011. The Henson Gletscher Formation, North Greenland, and its bearing on the global Cambrian Series 2–Series 3 boundary. Bulletin of Geosciences 86(3):465-534 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225140: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.04.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Ovatoryctocara granulata Chernysheva 1960 trilobite
Lancastria cf. plana Tomashpolskaya and Khalfin 1960 trilobite
Lancastria cf. plana Geyer and Peel 2011
Protoryctocephalus arcticus n. sp. Geyer and Peel 2011 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
"Olenellus cf. truemani" = Fritzolenellus truemani
"Olenellus cf. truemani" = Fritzolenellus truemani Walcott 1913 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Hebediscidae
Neopagetina rjonsnitzkii Lermontova 1940
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis "sp. A" Corda 1847
Helcionelloida
  - Stenothecidae
Mellopegma sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976