Also known as GCI 74-901
Where: Greenland (69.3° N, 54.9° W: paleocoordinates 69.2° N, 54.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• 2m Tertiary basalt overlain by 140cm sublittoral gravel with shells followed by up to 80cm red clay/silt with scattered stones and 8m breccia, overlain by 1-2m Holocene beach gravel
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, pebbly, silty conglomerate and unlithified, red siltstone
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 75179: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 25.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus balanus barnacle | |
Gastropoda | |
Trophon truncatus Ström 1768 murex snail | |
"Oenopota cf. exarata" = Propebela exarata
"Oenopota cf. exarata" = Propebela exarata Møller 1842 cone shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys islandica" = Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica
"Chlamys islandica" = Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica Müller 1776 scallop | |
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
"? Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"? Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Polychaeta | |
Ophiuroidea | |
? Ophiura sarsi brittle star | |
Echinoidea | |
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis Müller 1776 sea urchin | |
Caulostrepsis sp. Clarke 1908 |