Washington Land, North Greenland - Patzkowsky (Silurian to of Greenland)
Where: Greenland (77.5° N, 66.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 31.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cape Schuchert Formation, Rhuddanian to Rhuddanian (443.7 - 436.0 Ma)
• Cape Schuchert formation as defined by Norford, 1972.
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone
• 5 kg block of white/grey coarsely crystalline biostromal limestone.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. D. Lane. 1979. Llandovery trilobites from Washington Land, North Greenland. Bulletin - Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse 131:1-9 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12937: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 11.01.2002