GGU 314808 - Albert Heim Bjerge (Cambrian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (74.1° N, 23.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 48.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bastion Formation, Dyeran (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• SPECIFIC COMMENTS: Collection is from the base of the upper (shale) part of the Bastion Formation.

•GENERAL COMMENTS: The Kloftelv Formation is overlain by the fossiliferous Bastion and Ella Island foramtions, both of middle Dyerian age (late Early Camrbian, equivalent of the Botomian). The Bastion Formation is 150 m thick at Athe Albert Heim Bjerge locality is mainly galuconite-rich sandstone and siltstone in the lower part and shale with minor carbonate in its upper part.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• The Bastion and Ella Island Formations from part of a thick succession of shallow-marine Proterozoic-Ordovician sediments deposited on the Laurentian shelf.
• Shale with minor carbonate.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve,

• Rock samples were dissolve in buffered 10 percent acetic acid to retrieve acid-resistent microfossils. The resulting residues were sieved and the heavy mineral fraction separated using sodium polytungstate. All specimens are housed in the Geological Museum in Copenhagen (MGUH)

Primary reference: C. B. Skovsted and L.E. Holmer. 2005. Early Cambrian brachiopods from north-east Greenland. Palaeontology 48(2):325-345 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49457: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for Brachiopoda. The residues of the acid-digested samples contain a well-preserved and diverse small shelly fauna including helcionellid molluscs, coelosclerites, lapworthellids, and problematic fossils. Add Gubanov et al. press and Skovsted in press (at the time of April, 2005) for complete fauna - references in current reference.
Archaeocyatha
  -
Coleolidae
  - Coleolidae
Cassitella sp.2 Malinky and Skovsted 2004
Cassitella baculata1 Malinky and Skovsted 2004
Discinella micans
  - Mobergellidae
Discinella micans2 Billings 1871
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloriidae indet.2 Walcott 1920
 Bradoriida - Svealutidae
Liangshanella sayutinae2 Melnikova 1988
 Bradoriida - Indianidae
Indiana secunda2 Matthew 1895
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet.2 Walch 1771 trilobite
Brachiopoda
  - Mickwitziidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
Obolellata
 Obolellida - Obolellidae
Obolella crassa Hall 1847
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Hyolithida indet.1 Mathew 1962
 Orthothecida - Triplicatellidae
Triplicatella sinuosa2 Skovsted et al. 2004
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Yochelcionellidae
Yochelcionella sp.2 Runnegar and Pojeta 1974
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
unclassified
  -
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus micans2 Billings 1871