East of Brudkløft, 700-885 m altitude: Late Campanian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 70.8° North, 53.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:60.3° North, 13.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Late Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Between 700 m and 885 m altitude; Upper Campanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary,black lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Natural History Museum of Denmark (MGUH)
Metadata
Database number:226391
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2022-07-05 00:03:26 Last modified:2022-07-05 00:03:26
Access level:the public Released:2022-07-05 00:03:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

71421. J. S. H. Collins and H. Wienberg Rasmussen. 1992. Upper Cretaceous - Lower Tertiary crustaceans from West Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Bulletin 162:1-46 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]