Sample 196345, Kim Fjelde area, Peary Land, Ladegardsaen Formation (Cretaceous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.4° N, 23.2° W: paleocoordinates 66.9° N, 11.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "c" Member (Ladegardsaen Formation), Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• sample from locality 2 of Kim Fjelde from the topmost part of unit c, N. klimovskiensis ammonite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• trend towards deposition in a marine regime characterized by higher energy levels
• fine-grained sands with phosphoritic concretions

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 66557: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
"Neotollia sp." = Tollia
"Neotollia sp." = Tollia Pavlow 1914 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
? Buchia keyserlingi Lahusen 1888 scallop
Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
 Gonyaulacales -
Tanyosphaeridium isocalamus Cookson and Eisenak 1958
Paragonyaulacysta
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