'Winterhouses' (GGU 206483): Tremadocian, Greenland
collected by John S. Peel 1976

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Sinuopeidae
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
unclassified
Questionably assigned to genus
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Tergomya - Tryblidiida - Tryblidiidae
Questionably assigned to genus
Artiopoda - Proetida - Bathyuridae
see common names

Geography
Country:Greenland
Coordinates: 80.0° North, 65.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.9° North, 67.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Early Ordovician
Stage: Tremadocian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 1
Key time interval: Tremadocian
Age range of interval: 486.85 - 477.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Poulsen Cliff
Stratigraphy comments: Collected 48 meters below the top of the formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:stromatolitic lithified lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: mound-like bed of digitate stromatolites
Environment:platform/shelf-margin reef
Geology comments: Entire formation is comprised of shales, dolomites, thin sandstones and evaporites, part of a larger group of "platform interior carbonates"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:John S. Peel Collection dates:1976
Metadata
Database number:181518
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:M. Hopkins Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-09-15 09:36:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-09-15 09:36:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
15923. R. A. Fortey and J. S. Peel. 1990. Early Ordovician trilobites and molluscs from the Poulsen Cliff Formation, Washington Land, western North Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 38(1):11-32 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]