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
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 | |
Helicotoma indet. Salter 1859 snail | |
"Roubidouxia sp." = Ceratopea
"Roubidouxia sp." = Ceratopea Ulrich 1911 snail | |
Maclurites sp., "Helicotoma similis" = Teiichispira similis
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail
"Helicotoma similis" = Teiichispira similis Whitfield 1890 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Archaeorthis groenlandica Poulsen 1937 | |
Trilobita | |
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 |