'Winterhouses' (GGU 206483) (Ordovician of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (80.0° N, 65.6° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° S, 41.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Poulsen Cliff Formation, Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• Collected 48 meters below the top of the formation

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified, stromatolitic lime mudstone

• Entire formation is comprised of shales, dolomites, thin sandstones and evaporites, part of a larger group of "platform interior carbonates"
• mound-like bed of digitate stromatolites

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by John S. Peel in 1976

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: R. A. Fortey and J. S. Peel. 1990. Early Ordovician trilobites and molluscs from the Poulsen Cliff Formation, Washington Land, western North Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 38(1):11-32 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181518: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 15.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Plethrospira floweri n. sp.
Plethrospira floweri n. sp.
Questionably assigned to genus
Tergomya
 Tryblidiida - Tryblidiidae
"Archinacella (cf. Archinacella) elongata" = Proplina elongata
"Archinacella (cf. Archinacella) elongata" = Proplina elongata Cullison 1944
Questionably assigned to genus
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
"Bridgeina sp." = Macluritella
"Bridgeina sp." = Macluritella Kirk 1927 snail
 Eogastropoda - Sinuopeidae
Sinuopea sp.
Sinuopea sp. Ulrich 1911 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp.
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Licnocephala sminue n. sp., Peltabellia elegans n. sp.
Licnocephala sminue n. sp. Fortey and Peel 1990 trilobite
Peltabellia elegans n. sp. Fortey and Peel 1990 trilobite