GGU 315109, 8 kilometers north of the Jungersen Glacier (Cambrian of Greenland)

Where: Freuchen Land, Greenland (82.0° N, 42.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 49.1° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bonnia - Olenellus trilobite zone, Henson Gletscher Formation (Brønlund Fjord Group), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• Olenellus zone, which is the end of the Early Cambrian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Not described.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: MGUH

Primary reference: J. S. Peel. 1989. A Lower Cambrian Eotebenna (Mollusca) from Arctic North America. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26:1501-1503 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50036: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Blake (1986: Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse, Rapport 132:65-73) describe tribobites.
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Yochelcionellidae
Yochelcionella sp. Runnegar and Pojeta 1974
Eotebenna arctica n. sp. Peel 1989
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Pagetides sp. Rasetti 1945
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia sp. Walcott 1916 trilobite
Ogygopsis typicalis Resser 1979 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Zacanthoididae
Zacanthopsis sp. Resser 1938 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus sp. Hall 1861 trilobite
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
 Pseudoconodontida -
Mongolitubulus sp. Missarzhevsky 1977