Xenocybe ebyconex-Sphaerexochus centeo Assemblage, Kap Schuchert, Greenland: Llandovery - Wenlock, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Balticellidae
Monoceratella mazos
ostracodes
Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae
? Dicranogmus sp. Hawle and Corda 1847
Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae
Xenocybe ebyconex
Trilobita - Harpetida - Harpetidae
Scotoharpes sp. Lamont 1948
Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Ceratocephala cf. bicuspis
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Sphaerexochus centeo
Hyrokybe meliceris
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
? Bumastus sp. Murchison 1839
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Styginidae
Ligiscus arcanus
Meroperix aquilonaris
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Cephalopoda
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Bivalvia
Pelecypoda indet. Goldfuss 1820
synonym of Bivalvia
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 81.0° North, 65.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.6° North, 28.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Silurian
*Epoch:Late/Upper Llandovery - Early/Lower Wenlock
Key time interval:Llandovery - Wenlock
Age range of interval:443.80000 - 427.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pentamerus Bjerg
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Lithology description: "carbonate mounds...White Limestone."
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Absolute abundances are given for two separate collections, which have been combined.
Taxonomic list comments:Most of the non-trilobite elements have not yet been described.
Metadata
Database number:23051
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-07-08 14:33:06 Last modified:2006-09-15 15:14:05
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-08 14:33:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6632. A. T. Thomas and P. D. Lane. 1999. Trilobite assemblages of the North Atlantic Region. in A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson, eds. Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian. Cambridge University Press, Cambrdige 444-457. [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]