Sample 196192, Kim Fjelde area, Peary Land, Ladegardsaen Formation (Jurassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.4° N, 23.2° W: paleocoordinates 66.9° N, 10.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "b" Member (Ladegardsaen Formation), Middle Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• sample from locality 5 of Kim Fjelde from unit b of the formation, D. maximus ammonite zone, Middle Volgian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• shallow water sediments deposited in fairly tranquil environments

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: E. Hakansson, T. Birkelund, S. Piasecki and V. Zakharov. 1981. Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of the extreme Arctic (Peary Land, North Greenland). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 30:11-42 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66541: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Paragonyaulacysta
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Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae