Ilugigsoq Valley, Koralravine, Nugssuaq, West Greenland (Paleocene of Greenland)

Also known as Reef 1219

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 53.5° W: paleocoordinates 62.4° N, 21.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Lower Danian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basin reef; lithified tuff and lithified shale

• at least one polytypic coral thicket
• dark, greenish-grey, coarse-grained basalt tuff between shale beds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Floris. 1972. Scleractinian corals from the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary of Nugssuaq, West Greenland. Meddelelser om Groenland 196(1):1-132 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69607: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Faksephyllia faxoensis, "Caryophyllia andreasi" = Caryophyllia konincki
Faksephyllia faxoensis Beck 1835 stony coral
"Caryophyllia andreasi" = Caryophyllia konincki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia candelabrum
Dendrophyllia candelabrum Henning 1899 stony coral