Sample 196331, Kim Fjelde area, Peary Land, Ladegardsaen Formation (Cretaceous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.4° N, 23.2° W: paleocoordinates 67.0° N, 10.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "c" Member (Ladegardsaen Formation), Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

• sample from locality 4 of Kim Fjelde from unit c of the formation, H. kochii ammonite zone, Early Ryazanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• fine-grained sands with sideritic or phosphoritic concretions

Size class: macrofossils

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 66552: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia cf. fischeriana d'Orbigny 1845 scallop
Buchia okensis Pavlow 1907 scallop