Ujaragssuit, profile IV, unit C (Pleistocene of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (64.8° N, 50.1° W: paleocoordinates 64.8° N, 50.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• 12-13.5 cm depth

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, brown, sandy peat

• Sandy detrital peat (sphagnum pieces and others)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Iversen. 1934. Moorgeologische Untersuchungen auf Grönland. Ein Beitrag zur Beleuchtung der Ursachen des Unterganges der mittelalterlichen Nordmännerkultur. Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 8:341-358 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140296: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Calamagrostis cf. langsdorfii, Luzula sp.
Insecta
 Lepidoptera - Noctuidae
"Agrotis occulta" = Eurois occulta
"Agrotis occulta" = Eurois occulta Linnaeus 1758 moth
common, especially near boundary between B and C
Angiospermae
 Caryophyllales - Polygonaceae
Polygonum viviparum
 Caryophyllales - Montiaceae
Montia lamprosperma
Montia lamprosperma miner's lettuce