Also known as GCI 74-892
Where: Greenland (69.7° N, 54.9° W: paleocoordinates 69.7° N, 54.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• 10m high, divided into three units
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, gray, red, silty, sandy sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: O. Bennike, K.B. Hansen, K.L. Knudsen, D.N. Penney, and K.L. Rasmussen. 1994. Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland. Boreas 23:194-215 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75197: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 26.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinoidea | |
Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis Müller 1776 sea urchin | |
Actinopteri | |
Gadus morhua cod | |
Aves | |
Alle alle Linnaeus 1758 dovekie | |
Polychaeta | |
Gastropoda | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Boreocingula castanea Möller 1842 snail | |
? Buccinum sp. Linnaeus 1758 true whelk
Colus gracilis da Costa 1778 true whelk | |
Moelleria costulata Möller 1842 snail | |
"Scissurella crispata" = Anatoma crispata
"Scissurella crispata" = Anatoma crispata Fleming 1828 snail | |
Cylichna alba Brown 1827 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana minuta Müller 1776 pointed nut clam | |
Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
Yoldiella lenticula Möller 1842 clam | |
"Nuculoma belloti" = Ennucula tenuis
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Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata
"Mya truncata" = Mya (Mya) truncata Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam | |
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum, "Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
"Clinocardium ciliatum" = Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum Fabricius 1780 cockle
"Serripes groenlandicus" = Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus Mohr 1786 cockle | |
Astarte montagui Dillwyn 1817 clam
Astarte borealis Chemnitz 1784 clam
Astarte elliptica Brown 1827 clam | |
"Arctinula greenlandica" = Similipecten greenlandicus
"Arctinula greenlandica" = Similipecten greenlandicus Sowerby 1842 mud scallop misspelled in text "Actinula"
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Rhynchonellata | |
Hemithiris psittacea Gmelin 1790 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Idmidronea sp. Canu and Bassler 1920
Tubulipora sp. Lamarck 1816 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus balanus barnacle | |
Caulostrepsis sp. Clarke 1908 |