Wollaston Forland, section 14, East Greenland (Cretaceous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (74.5° N, 20.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.0° N, 11.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rigi Member (Lindemans Bugt Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• Upper Volgian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Middle Volgian to Valanginian Wollaston Forland Group composed of relatively deep-water conglomerates and mudstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Surlyk and V. A. Zakharov. 1982. Buchiid bivalves from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of East Greenland. Palaeontology 25(4):727-753 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59206: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia terebratuloides
Buchia terebratuloides Lahusen 1888 scallop