GGU 340103.3684: Montezuman, Greenland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Demospongiae
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Demospongiae sp.
(Sollas 1875)
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Geography
| Country: | Greenland |
| Coordinates: | 82.8° North, 42.2° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 17.0° North, 98.6° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Series 2 |
| Stage: | Stage 3 | 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 2 |
| Key time interval: | Montezuman | ||
| Age range of interval: | 519.9 - 514.8 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Buen |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified muddy mudstone |
| Lithology description: slope mudstones | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: Sedimentation from suspension took place in a sheltered, periodically dysoxic environment | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with pyrite |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: GGU, Geological Survey of Greenland (now Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland), Copenhagen, Denmark; MGUH, Geological Museum, Copenhagen
(part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark). | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 233876 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Simpson | Enterer: | T. Karim |
| Created: | 2024-03-06 16:32:50 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2024-03-06 16:32:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 87740. | J. P. Botting, P. Cárdenas, and J. S. Peel. 2015. A Crown-Group demosponge from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet biota, North Greenland. Palaeontology 58(1):35-43 [C. Simpson/T. Karim] |