Devon Canyon (Ordovician of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (73.7° N, 24.6° W: paleocoordinates 15.0° S, 31.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cape Weber Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Teichert

Primary reference: C. Poulsen. 1937. On the Lower Ordovician faunas of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 119(3):1-72 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122081: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 16.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Hystricuridae
Hystricurus crassilimbatus Poulsen 1937 trilobite
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Petigurus groenlandicus Poulsen 1937 trilobite
"Niobe brevicauda" = Licnocephala brevicauda Poulsen 1937 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae