Where: Greenland (74.5° N, 20.3° W: paleocoordinates 58.2° N, 12.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kuhnpasset Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, argillaceous, sandy reef rocks
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: S. R. A. Kelly, E. Blanc, S. P. Price and A. G. Whitham. 2000. Early Cretaceous giant bivalves from seep-related limestone mounds, Wollaston Forland, Northeast Greenland. E.M. Harper, J.D. Taylor, J.A. Crame, The evolutionary biology of the Bivalvia. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 177:227-246 [F. Fursich/A. Tomasovych/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55734: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 03.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Caspiconcha whithami clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite |