Where: Greenland (72.9° N, 25.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 0.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Andrée Land Group, Tonian (1000.0 - 850.0 Ma)
• From the Limestone-Dolomite "Series", Eleonore Bay Group. Later assigned to the Andrée Land Group by Sønderholm & Tirsgaard (1993). The Andrée Land Group underlies the Sturtian-equivalent glacial episode in Greenland (Klaebe et al., 2018), which makes it Tonian in age using the current placement of the base-Cryogenian at 720 Ma, the onset of the Sturtian glacial.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, stromatolitic, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: permineralized, original carbon, replaced with silica
Collection methods: peel or thin section
• Repository: Harvard Paleobotanical Collection (HPC) of the Paleobotanical Laboratories, Harvard University.
Primary reference: J. W. Green, A. H. Knoll, and K. Swett. 1989. Microfossils from silicified stromatolitic carbonates of the Upper Proterozoic Limestone-Dolomite 'Series', central East Greenland. Geological Magazine 126:567-585 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 227749: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.10.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Clonophycus vulgaris Oehler 1978 | |
Coccogoneae | |
Sphaerophycus parvum Schopf 1968
Sphaerophycus medium Horodyski and Donaldson 1980
Gloeodiniopsis mikros Knoll 1982 | |
Eoentophysalis belcherensis Hofmann 1976 | |
Myxococcoides | |
Myxococcoides stragulescens Green et al. 1989
Myxococcoides cantabrigiensis Knoll 1982 | |
Hormogoneae | |
"Eomycetopsis robusta" = Siphonophycus robustum, "Tenuofilum septatum" = Siphonophycus septatum, Siphonophycus inornatum
"Eomycetopsis robusta" = Siphonophycus robustum Schopf 1968
"Tenuofilum septatum" = Siphonophycus septatum Schopf 1968
Siphonophycus inornatum Zhang 1981 |