Where: Greenland (70.7° N, 53.5° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° N, 20.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Lower Danian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale and lithified tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. Floris. 1972. Scleractinian corals from the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary of Nugssuaq, West Greenland. Meddelelser om Groenland 196(1):1-132 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69605: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
? Discotrochus sp. Milne-Edwards 1848 stony coral | |
Faksephyllia faxoensis Beck 1835 stony coral
"Caryophyllia andreasi" = Caryophyllia konincki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
"Flabellum groenlandicum" = Flabellum anderssoni
"Flabellum groenlandicum" = Flabellum anderssoni Felix 1909 stony coral | |
Oculina becki Nielsen 1922 stony coral | |
Dendrophyllia candelabrum Henning 1899 stony coral |