This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland.
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greenland
Kap København Formation
Kap Brewster Group
Paleogene
Kangilia Formation
Late Cretaceous
Early Cretaceous
Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Cambro-Ordovician
Buen Formation
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Kap København Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kap Kobenhavn Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kap Brewster Group at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kap Dalton Group at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Agatdal Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Atanikerluk Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Eqalulik Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kangilia Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Pautut Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Atane Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kome Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Steensby Bjerg Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kuhnpasset Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Palnatokes Bjerg Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Hesteelv Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Hartz Fjeld Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Llindemann Bugt Formation (sic) at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Lindemans Bugt Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Raukelv Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Ladegardsaen Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kap Leslie Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Bernbjerg Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Charkot Bugt Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Vardekloft Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cape Stewart Beds at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cape Stewart Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Fleming Fjord Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Isrand Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Wordie Creek Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Wordy Creek Formation (sic) at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Wegener Halvo Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Schuchert Dal Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Depot Island Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Foldvik Creek Group at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Foldvik Creek Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Ravnefjeld Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kim Fjelde Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Upper Marine Group at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Foldedal Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kap Jungersen Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Lower Marine Group at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Celsius Bjerg Group at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Celcius Bjerg Group (sic) at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Britta Dal Formation 1 at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Britta Dal Formation 2 at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Obrutschew Bjerg Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Chester Bjerg Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kap Morton Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Pentamerus Bjerg Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Wulff Land Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Wulf Land Formation (sic) at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cap Godfred Hansen at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Bessels Fjord Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Hauge Bjerge Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Lafayette Bugt Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Odins Fjord Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Ymers Gletscher Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cape Schuchert Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cap Schuchert Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Samuelsen Høj Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Samuelsen Hoj Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Samuelsen Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Washington Land Group at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Adams Bjerg Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Petermann Halvo Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Offley Island Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Turesø Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Tureso Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Aleqatsiaq Fjord Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cape Calhoun Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Narwhal Sound Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Narwhale Sound Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cape Weber Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Poulsen Cliff Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cass Fjord Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Holm Dal Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Kap Stanton Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Bastion Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Ella Island Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Aftenstjernesø Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Henson Gletscher Formation 1 at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Henson Gletscher Formation 2 at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Paralleldal Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Buen Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Conway Morris & Peel, 2008, p.138
- ^ Wyckoff Bjerg Formation at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography
edit- Peel, John S.; Willman, Sebastian (2018), "The Buen Formation (Cambrian Series 2) biota of North Greenland", Papers in Palaeontology, 4 (3): 381–432, Bibcode:2018PPal....4..381P, doi:10.1002/spp2.1112
- Geyer, Gerd; Peel, John S. (2011), "The Henson Gletscher Formation, North Greenland, and its bearing on the global Cambrian Series 2-Series 3 boundary" (PDF), Bulletin of Geosciences, 86: 465–534, doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1252, retrieved 2018-08-07
- Conway Morris, Simon; Peel, John S. (2008), "The earliest annelids: Lower Cambrian polychaetes from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Peary Land, North Greenland" (PDF), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 53: 137–148, doi:10.4202/app.2008.0110, retrieved 2019-02-14
- Higgins, A.K.; Soper, N.J.; Leslie, A.G. (2000), "The Ellesmerian and Caledonian Orogenie Belts of Greenland" (PDF), Polarforschung, 68: 141–151, retrieved 2018-08-07
Further reading
edit- C. B. Skovsted and J. S. Peel. 2011. Hyolithellus in life position from the Lower Cambrian of north Greenland. Journal of Paleontology 85(1):37-47
- A. C. Daley and J. S. Peel. 2010. A Possible Anomalocaridid from the Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland. Journal of Paleontology 84(2):352-355
- G. E. Budd and J. S. Peel. 1998. A new xenusiid lobopod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna of North Greenland. Palaeontology 41(6):1201-1213
- M. Williams, D. J. Siveter, and J. S. Peel. 1996. Isoxys (arthropoda) from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstaette, North Greenland. Journal of Paleontology 70(6):947-954
- S. Conway Morris and J. S. Peel. 1990. Articulated halkieriids from the Lower Cambrian of north Greenland. Nature 345(28):802-805
- J. K. Rigby. 1986. Cambrian and Silurian sponges from North Greenland. Rapport Groenlands Geologiske Undersoegelse 132:51-63
- G. Säve-Söderbergh. 1935. On the dermal bones of the head in labyrinthodont stegocephalians and primitive Reptilia, with special reference to Eotriassic stegocephalians from East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 98(3):1-211