Where: Greenland (81.7° N, 59.5° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 21.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: "Polaris Harbour" Formation, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Lauge Koch in 1922
Primary reference: P. D. Lane, P. R. Dawes, and J. S. Peel. 1980. A new Silurian Hemiarges (Trilobita) from North Greenland and the question of the Polaris Harbour Formation. Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 101:45-53 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188489: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 05.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Hemiarges ethnikos n. sp." = Richterarges ethnikos
"Hemiarges ethnikos n. sp." = Richterarges ethnikos Lane et al. 1980 trilobite |