Sample 196193, Kim Fjelde area, Peary Land, Ladegardsaen Formation: Middle Tithonian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Gonyaulacysta sp. Deflandre 1964
Sentusidinium myriatrichum
Leptodinium aff. hyalodermopsis
unclassified
Paragonyaulacysta borealis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia fischeriana (d'Orbigny 1845)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Dorsoplanites gracilis
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 82.4° North, 23.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:66.9° North, 10.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Middle Tithonian
Age range of interval: 149.2 - 145 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ladegardsaen Member:"b"
Local section:Kim Fjelde Local bed:sample 196193
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: sample from locality 5 of Kim Fjelde from unit b of the formation, D. maximus ammonite zone, Middle Volgian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: shallow water sediments deposited in fairly tranquil environments
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:66542
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-10-10 01:06:26 Last modified:2006-10-10 04:06:27
Access level:the public Released:2006-10-10 01:06:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18998. E. Hakansson, T. Birkelund, S. Piasecki and V. Zakharov. 1981. Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of the extreme Arctic (Peary Land, North Greenland). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 30:11-42 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]