Where: Greenland (73.4° N, 24.9° W: paleocoordinates 15.3° S, 31.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cape Weber Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• Assignment to Cape Weber Formation based on the presence of some poorly preserved gastropods
Environment/lithology: lithified, blue limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. B. Cleaves and E. F. Fox in 1933
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 122108: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 17.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Ectomaria indet. Koken 1896 snail
Lophospira indet. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
? Holopea indet. Hall 1847 snail |