Locality 5, Rødryggen, Wollaston Forland: Early Valanginian, Greenland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Zeilleriidae
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Rugitela hippopus
(Roemer 1840)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Neocomitidae
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Polyptychitidae
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Tollia sp.
Pavlow 1914
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Polyptychites sp.
Pavlow 1892
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Geography
| Country: | Greenland |
| Coordinates: | 74.6° North, 19.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.4° North, 23.3° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Valanginian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early Valanginian | Ammonoid zone: | Delphinites (Pseudogarnieria) undulatoplicatilis |
| Age range of interval: | 137.05 - 132.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Palnatokes Bjerg | Member: | Albrechts Bugt |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified mudstone |
| Lithology description: light grey, calcareous silty mudstone that weathers to yellowish colours | |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
| Geology comments: Albrechts Bugt Member was deposited near the crest of a filled half-graben basin | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Geological Museum, Copenhagen (GPUH) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 62640 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-07-24 23:52:15 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-07-24 23:52:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18051. | P. Alsen and P. F. Rawson. 2005. The Early Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) ammonite Delphinites (Pseudogarnieria) from North-East Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 52(2):201-212 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 18075 | D. A. T. Harper, P. Alsen, E. F. Owen and M. R. Sandy. 2005. Early Cretaceous brachiopods from North-East Greenland: Biofacies and biogeography. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 52(2):213-225 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |