Locality 122, unit B3, Kap København (Pleistocene of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.5° N, 24.1° W: paleocoordinates 82.4° N, 23.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kap København Formation, Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• Kap København Formation and the Fishcreekian are considered to be correlative and slightly younger than the Cibicides grossa zone (c. 2.5 Ma), approximately c. 2.4 Ma at the Praetiglian/Tiglian bundary. Age estimate based on foraminifer fauna pointing to Plio-Pleistocene age, reversed paleomagnetism in fine-grained part of the sequence supporting correlation with Matuyama Chron and amino acid racemization of bivalve shells.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Primary reference: J. Böcher. 1995. Palaeoentomology of the Kap København Formation, a Plio-Pleistocene sequence in Peary Land, North Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience 33:1-82 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160145: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera -
Chalcidoidea indet. Leach 1815 chalcid wasp
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Formicinae indet. Latreille 1802 ant
Camponotus cf. herculeanus Linnaeus 1758 ant
 Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae
Dolerus sp. Panzer 1801 wood wasp
 Dicondylia -
Lepidoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758 moth
 Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Hydroporus spp. Clairville 1806 predaceous diving beetle
Agabus spp. Leach 1817 predaceous diving beetle
"Agabus bifarius" = Agabus (Agabus) bifarius Kirby 1837 predaceous diving beetle
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
Carabidae indet. Latreille 1802 ground beetle
Diacheila matthewsi Böcher 1995 ground beetle
Nebria cf. nivalis Paykull 1790 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Grypus equiseti Fabricius 1775 snout beetle
Notaris cf. acridulus Linnaeus 1758 snout beetle
 Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Olophrum consimile Gyllenhal 1810 rove beetle
 Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
"Aegialia terminalis" = Aegialia (Psammoporus) terminalis
"Aegialia terminalis" = Aegialia (Psammoporus) terminalis Brown 1931 scarab beetle
 Diptera - Chironomidae
cf. Diamesa sp. Walts 1837 non biting midge
Tanypodinae indet. Skuse 1889 non biting midge
Corynocera ambigua Zetterstedt 1837 non biting midge
Orthocladiinae indet. Lenz 1921 non biting midge
cf. Psectrocladius sp. Kieffer 1906 non biting midge
cf. Orthocladius sp. van der Wulp 1874 non biting midge
Chironomini indet. Macquart 1838 non biting midge
cf. Endochironomus sp. Kieffer 1918 non biting midge