Sample 196345, Kim Fjelde area, Peary Land, Ladegardsaen Formation: Early Valanginian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
? Buchia keyserlingi (Lahusen 1888)
Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales
Tanyosphaeridium isocalamus Cookson and Eisenak 1958
Dinophyceae - Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Gonyaulacysta helicoidea Eisenack and Cookson 1960
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 82.4° North, 23.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:59.3° North, 23.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Valanginian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Early Valanginian
Age range of interval: 137.05 - 132.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ladegardsaen Member:"c"
Local section:Kim Fjelde Local bed:sample 196345
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: sample from locality 2 of Kim Fjelde from the topmost part of unit c, N. klimovskiensis ammonite zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: fine-grained sands with phosphoritic concretions
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: trend towards deposition in a marine regime characterized by higher energy levels
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:66557
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-10-10 02:45:53 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-10-10 02:45:52
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
18998. E. Hakansson, T. Birkelund, S. Piasecki and V. Zakharov. 1981. Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of the extreme Arctic (Peary Land, North Greenland). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 30:11-42 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]