GGU 314807 - 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 (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• SPECIFIC COMMENTS: Collection is from the limestone unit, stratigraphically midway up the Bastion Formation. Same stratigraphic height as GGU 31805-7 and GGU 31835

•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: limestone

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

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 49458: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.04.2005, edited by Pete Wagner and Sarah Tweedt

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.
Microdictyon
  -
Microdictyon sp.4 Bengston et al. 1981
 Bradoriida - Svealutidae
Liangshanella sayutinae4 Melnikova 1988
 Bradoriida - Indianidae
Indiana secunda4 Matthew 1895
 Bradoriida - Hipponicharionidae
Albrunnicola sp.4 Martinsson 1979
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Calodiscidae
Calodiscus lobatus4 Hall 1847
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet.4 Walch 1771 trilobite
Helcionelloida
  -
"Ocruranus tunuensis" = Emargimantus tunuensis2
"Ocruranus tunuensis" = Emargimantus tunuensis2 Peel and Skovsted 2005
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
 Helcionellida -
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
"Mackinnonia rostrata" = Davidonia rostratum3, "Mackinnonia taconica" = Davidonia taconica3
"Mackinnonia rostrata" = Davidonia rostratum3 Zhou and Xiao 1984
"Mackinnonia taconica" = Davidonia taconica3 Landing and Bartowski 1996
 Helcionellida - Rugaeconidae
? Xianfengella cf. yatesi2 Parkhaev 2001
Parkaev in Gravestock et al. 2001
Brachiopoda
  - Mickwitziidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Hyolithida indet.1 Mathew 1962
Parkula bounites1 Bengtson et al. 1990
 Hyolithida - Nelegerocornidae
 Hyolithida - Similothecidae
"Similotheca bastionensis" = Similotheca bastionense1
"Similotheca bastionensis" = Similotheca bastionense1 Malinky and Skovsted 2004
 Orthothecida -
Orthothecida indet.1 Marek 1966
 Orthothecida - Gracilithecidae
Gracilitheca sp.1 Syssoiev 1968
 Orthothecida - Triplicatellidae
Triplicatella sp.4 Conway Morris 1990
Triplicatella "sp. A"6 Conway Morris 1990
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca australiensis1 Bengtson et al. 1990
 Orthothecida -
Cupitheca holocyclata1 Bengtson et al. 1990
unclassified
  -
Siphonoconcha
 Tianzhushanelliformes - Tianzhushanellidae
Apistoconcha sp.4 Bengtson et al. 1990
Hexactinellida
  -
Hexactinellida indet.4 Schmidt 1870 glass sponge
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloriidae indet.4 Walcott 1920
Eremactis conara4 Bengtson et al. 1990
Coleolidae
  - Coleolidae
Cassitella sp.4 Malinky and Skovsted 2004
Cassitella baculata n. gen. n. sp.1 Malinky and Skovsted 2004
Coleolus
  - Coleolidae
Coleolus sp.1 Hall 1879
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella laevigata4
[entered as Torrelella laevigata]
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus micans4 Billings 1871