Cyrena bed c, Kap Brewster (Eocene of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (70.2° N, 22.1° W: paleocoordinates 66.8° N, 12.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kap Dalton Group, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Cyrena beds" of the Kap Dalton series, which overlies the Kap Dalton series (Paleogene) AGE: Paleogene, on the basis of crude biostratigraphy; reassigned on the basis of known age ranges from more recent literature; reassigned to Late Eocene by enterer. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the 42 m thick Cyrena bed c.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, green, cherty/siliceous sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Grey, green, feldspathic sandstone with some hard siliceous bands. LITHIFICATION: Lithified on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors from the 1951 Danish Expedition to East Greenland, including L. Koch, D. Mackney, and F. Sherrell (University of Bristol). REPOSITORY: MMC?

Primary reference: M. Y. Hassan. 1953. Tertiary faunas from Kap Brewstwer, East Greenland. Meddeleser om Grønland 111(5):1-42 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88290: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalves, gastropods, and brachiopods. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with antiquated nomenclature, but species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
? Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam