Also known as GCI 74-932
Where: Greenland (71.5° N, 55.4° W: paleocoordinates 71.5° N, 55.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• no formation given-reaching altitudes of 35 m above sea level
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; unlithified, pebbly siliciclastic sediments
Primary reference: O. Bennike, K.B. Hansen, K.L. Knudsen, D.N. Penney, and K.L. Rasmussen. 1994. Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland. Boreas 23:194-215 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75127: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 24.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis Müller 1776 sea urchin | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Bivalvia | |
Musculus sp. Roding 1798 mussel | |
Astarte elliptica Brown 1827 clam
Astarte borealis Chemnitz 1784 clam | |
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
Yoldiella lenticula Möller 1842 clam | |
Sedentaria | |