Where: Greenland (70.6° N, 53.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 59.3° N, 4.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sonja Member (Agatdal Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• The lens was originally 7 m long and 0.7m thick but was completely excavated by Rosenkrantz and his co-workers. Most fossil groups indicate a Paleocene (Late Danian) age for the formation (Fig. 16; Bendix-Almgreen 1969; H.J. Hansen 1970; Rosenkrantz 1970; Szczechura 1971; Kollmann & Peel 1983; Collins & Wienberg Rasmussen 1992). The coccolith assemblage indicates a Chiasmolithus danicus zone age (NP 3 Zone; Perch-Nielsen 1973). The co-occurrence of the foraminifera Globoconusa daubjergensis and Globigerina compressa indicates a P1c plankton zone age for the Agatdal Formation (H.J. Hansen 1970; Berggren et al. 1995; Olsson et al. 1999) which corresponds to a late NP3 - early NP4 age. In the GRO#3well, dinocysts and nannofossils indicate an age not younger than nannoplankton zone NP4 (Late Danian or Early Selandian; Nøhr-Hansen 1997c; Nøhr-Hansen et al. 2002).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum of Denmark (MGUH)

Primary reference: H. A. Kollmann and J. S. Peel. 1983. Paleocene gastropods from Nûgssuaq, West Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse, Bulletin 146:1-115 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22943: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 04.07.2002, edited by Uta Merkel, Mihaela Krause, Mark Uhen, Matthew Clapham and Pete Wagner

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