Washington Land, North Greenland - Patzkowsky (Silurian to of Greenland)
Where: Greenland (77.5° N, 66.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° N, 31.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cape Schuchert Formation, Rhuddanian to Rhuddanian (443.4 - 438.5 Ma)
• Cape Schuchert formation as defined by Norford, 1972.
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone
• 5 kg block of white/grey coarsely crystalline biostromal limestone.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. D. Lane. 1979. Llandovery trilobites from Washington Land, North Greenland. Bulletin - Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse 131:1-9 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12937: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 11.01.2002
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Taxonomic list
• Trilobites only.
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Trilobita | |
Platylichas "sp. A" Gürich 1901 trilobite
Platylichas "sp. B" Gürich 1901 trilobite
Platylichas "sp. C" Gürich 1901 trilobite | |
Tropidocoryphinae "gen. indet." Pribyl 1946 trilobite | |
Harpidella helenae trilobite | |
Scotoharpes sp. Lamont 1948 trilobite | |
Kosovopeltis sp. Snajdr 1958 trilobite
? Scutelluidae indet. Richter and Richter 1955 trilobite | |
? Bumastus "sp. A" Murchison 1839 trilobite
? Bumastus "sp. B" Murchison 1839 trilobite
Stenopareia somnifer trilobite | |
Acernaspis sp. Campbell 1967 trilobite | |
Encrinurus aff. moderatus, Encrinurus "sp. A", Encrinurus "sp. B", Encrinurus "sp. C", Encrinurus "sp. D", Encrinurus "sp. E", Encrinurus "sp. F", Encrinurus "sp. G"
Encrinurus aff. moderatus trilobite
Encrinurus "sp. A" Emmrich 1844 trilobite
Encrinurus "sp. B" Emmrich 1844 trilobite
Encrinurus "sp. C" Emmrich 1844 trilobite
Encrinurus "sp. D" Emmrich 1844 trilobite
Encrinurus "sp. E" Emmrich 1844 trilobite
Encrinurus "sp. F" Emmrich 1844 trilobite
Encrinurus "sp. G" Emmrich 1844 trilobite | |
Youngia sp. Lindström 1885 trilobite
Deiphon cf. dikella trilobite
? Hadromeros sp. Lane 1971 trilobite | |
Leonaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite |