GGU sample 319571: Montezuman - Dyeran, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Nevadiidae
Buenellus higginsi n. sp. Blaker 1988
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 82.7° North, 41.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.7° North, 83.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
Stage: Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2 - Cambrian 2-3
Key time interval: Montezuman - Dyeran
Age range of interval: 519.9 - 511 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Buen
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of the Nevadella Zone or the lower part of the overlying Bonnia-Olenellus Zone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:J.P. Koch Fjord fossil locality
Database number:234292
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:M. Hopkins Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2024-03-26 16:10:48 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2024-03-26 16:10:48
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

87984. M. R. Blaker. 1988. A new genus of nevadiid trilobite from the Buen Formation (Early Cambrian) of Peary Land, central North Greenland. Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 137:33-41 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]