Styginid-Cheirurid-Harpetid Assemblage from northeast Greenland (Silurian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (80.0° N, 22.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 21.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pterospathodus celloni conodont zone, Samuelsen Høj Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: carbonate

• "BA-3, mid-shelf to shelf edge..." From ref. 6633: "The fossils come from a sequence of dolomites, limestones and shales, and were collected through a thickness of a little over 300 m of rock. All the fossils...are in a pure limestone matrix preserved as calcified exoskeletons..."
• "carbonate mounds lacking terrigenous, siliciclastic input" From ref. 6633: "pure limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Effort made to restrict list to elements known from type locality. List in text includes percent abundances. Some elements that are not given to species level are determined from PBDB ref. 6633.

Primary reference: A. T. Thomas and P. D. Lane. 1999. Trilobite assemblages of the North Atlantic Region. in A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson, eds. Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian. Cambridge University Press, Cambrdige 444-457. [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23048: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
 Stauriida - Ketophyllidae
? Tabularia sp. Soshkina 1937 horn coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Dinophyllum sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Rostroconchia
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Rostroconchia indet. Pojeta et al. 1972
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Streptis sp. Davidson 1881
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Lissocoelina sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Ostracoda
 Cypridinida - Bolbozoidae
Trilobita
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Scotoharpes loma Lane 1972 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
? Dicranopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Opoa adamsi trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia sp. Holm 1886 trilobite
 Proetida - Scharyiidae
Scharyia sp. Pribyl 1946 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Cyphoproetus sp. Kegel 1927 trilobite
Warburgella sp. Reed 1931 trilobite
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 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
? Ceratocephala sp. Warder 1838 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Chiozoon cowiei trilobite
Hyrokybe pharanx trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite