Kap Kobenhavn Member B Locality 128: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Greenland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Lunatia pallida
(Broderip and Sowerby 1829)
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2 individuals | ||||||
| recombined as Euspira pallida | |||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Buccinum cf. undatum
Linnaeus 1758
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2 individuals | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Oenopota decussata
(Couthouy 1839)
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2 individuals | ||||||
| recombined as Curtitoma decussata | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Serripes groenlandicus
Mohr 1786
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11 individuals | ||||||
| recombined as Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus | |||||||
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Clinocardium ciliatum
(Fabricius 1780)
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1 individual | ||||||
| recombined as Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma balthica
(Linnaeus 1758)
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46.5 individuals | ||||||
| recombined as Macoma (Macoma) balthica | |||||||
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Macoma calcarea
(Gmelin 1792)
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40.5 individuals | ||||||
| recombined as Macoma (Macoma) calcarea | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya truncata
Linnaeus 1758
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7.5 individuals | ||||||
| recombined as Mya (Mya) truncata | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Hiatella arctica
(Linnaeus 1767)
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0.5 individuals | ||||||
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Cyrtodaria kurriana
Dunker 1861
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10.5 individuals | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Tridonta borealis
(Chemnitz 1784)
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1 individual | ||||||
| recombined as Astarte borealis | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Greenland |
| Coordinates: | 82.5° North, 20.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 82.5° North, 19.4° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kap Kobenhavn | Member: | B | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 50-58m above sea level overlain by stratified coarse sand and gravel which forma a Late Pleistocene or Holocene delta terrace at 70m above sea level. This section is correlated with Member B, unit B2 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified silty,sandy sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: shell-rich laminated sand and silt overlain by stratified coarse sand and gravel | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: from locality 128 only, fauna is both similar and dissimilar to the faunas of the other units of the Kap Kobenhaven formation. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 75102 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Bulinski | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-09-23 12:24:14 | Last modified: | 2007-09-23 15:24:14 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2008-09-23 12:24:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25354. | L. A. Simonarson, K.S. Petersen, and S. Funder. 1998. Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap Kobenhavn Formation, North Greenland. Meddelelser om Gronland, Geoscience 36:1-104 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski] |