Locality 1, Andrée Land (Ordovician of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (73.5° N, 24.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 32.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cape Weber Formation, Cassinian (478.6 - 468.1 Ma)

• Was originally Arenig.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, massive, gray limestone

• "...massive-bedded, hard, compact, dark grey limestone which weathers reddish and is penetrated by numerous veins of white calcite."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Poulsen and A. Noe-Nygaard

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 122083: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 16.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Helicotoma indet. Salter 1859 snail
 Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
"Roubidouxia sp." = Ceratopea
"Roubidouxia sp." = Ceratopea Ulrich 1911 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites sp., "Helicotoma similis" = Teiichispira similis
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail
"Helicotoma similis" = Teiichispira similis Whitfield 1890 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Petigurus groenlandicus, "Bathyurellus teicherti" = Punka teicherti, "Niobe brevicauda n. sp." = Licnocephala brevicauda, Ceratopeltis latilimbata n. sp.
Petigurus groenlandicus Poulsen 1937 trilobite
"Bathyurellus teicherti" = Punka teicherti Poulsen 1937 trilobite
"Niobe brevicauda n. sp." = Licnocephala brevicauda Poulsen 1937 trilobite
Ceratopeltis latilimbata n. sp. Poulsen 1937 trilobite