Kuhn O, section 8, East Greenland (Cretaceous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (74.8° N, 20.3° W: paleocoordinates 59.3° N, 12.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palnatokes Bjerg Formation, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Albrechts Bugt/Rodryggen Member transition

• 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 59209: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.03.2006

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia inflata
Buchia inflata Toula 1888 scallop