Ikorfatnaesen, northcoast of Nugssuaq: Maastrichtian, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites (Discoscaphites) aff. angmartussutensis Birkelund 1965
7 specimens
Scaphites (Discoscaphites) sp. (Meek 1870)
7 specimens
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 70.7° North, 53.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:62.0° North, 17.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 980-990 m above sea level; Maastrichtian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: 'crushed and very disturbed, dark, bituminous shales with derived sandstone concretions and sandstone blocks, tectonically pressed'
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: 'Most of the material described in this paper was collected during the Nugssuaq Expeditions in 1938-1939 and during the current geological mapping of Svartenhuk and Nugssuaq under the auspices of the Geological Survey of Greenland. Both were carried out under the leadership of Professor A. Rosenkrantz.' The author himself joined two of the expeditions.
Museum repositories: MMH
Taxonomic list comments:Focus on ammonites.
Metadata
Database number:70240
Authorizer:M. Aberhan, M. Clapham Enterer:S. Nurnberg, M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-03-20 07:31:28 Last modified:2007-03-20 09:31:29
Access level:the public Released:2007-03-20 07:31:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23575. T. Birkelund. 1965. Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of West Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 179(7):1-192 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]

Secondary references:

71421 J. S. H. Collins and H. Wienberg Rasmussen. 1992. Upper Cretaceous - Lower Tertiary crustaceans from West Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Bulletin 162:1-46 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]