Clavering 68 (Holocene of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (74.4° N, 21.9° W: paleocoordinates 74.3° N, 21.9° W)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. B. Gotfredsen. 2010. Faunal Remains from the Wollaston Forland - Clavering Ø Region, Northeast Greenland - Thule Culture Subsistence in a High Arctic Polunya and Ice-edge Habitat. Danish Journal of Geography 110(2):175-200 [M. Uhen/N. Kahane]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 229941: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nicholas Kahane on 18.04.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phoca sp. Linnaeus 1758 seal
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus maritimus Phipps 1774 polar bear
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer