Ikorfatnaesen, northcoast of Nugssuaq (Cretaceous of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.7° N, 53.1° W: paleocoordinates 62.0° N, 17.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• 980-990 m above sea level; Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

• 'crushed and very disturbed, dark, bituminous shales with derived sandstone concretions and sandstone blocks, tectonically pressed'

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: 'Most of the material described in this paper was collected during the Nugssuaq Expeditions in 1938-1939 and during the current geological mapping of Svartenhuk and Nugssuaq under the auspices of the Geological Survey of Greenland. Both were carried out under the leadership of Professor A. Rosenkrantz.' The author himself joined two of the expeditions.

•Museum repositories: MMH

Primary reference: T. Birkelund. 1965. Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of West Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 179(7):1-192 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70240: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 20.03.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Focus on ammonites.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
"Scaphites (Discoscaphites) sp." = Discoscaphites, "Scaphites (Discoscaphites) aff. angmartussutensis" = Hoploscaphites angmartussutensis
"Scaphites (Discoscaphites) sp." = Discoscaphites Meek 1870 ammonite
"Scaphites (Discoscaphites) aff. angmartussutensis" = Hoploscaphites angmartussutensis Birkelund 1965 ammonite
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Mecochirus rostratus Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992 decapod