First Permo-Carboniferous conodonts from North Greenland

Abstract Upper Palaeozoic conodonts are described for the first time from the North Greenland Wandel Sea Basin. In eastern Peary Land, the Moscovian species Idiognathodus incurvus and the Kasimovian—Gzhelian I. magnificus occur in the Upper Carboniferous Foldedal Formation, while an assemblage from...

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Published in:Geological Magazine
Main Authors: Rasmussen, Jan Audun, Håkansson, Eckart
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1996
Subjects:
Geology
Greenland
Peary
Wandel
Peary Land
Ingeborg
Amdrup Land
Holm Land
Fjelde
Holm land
North Greenland
Wandel Sea
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800007834
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800007834
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Summary:Abstract Upper Palaeozoic conodonts are described for the first time from the North Greenland Wandel Sea Basin. In eastern Peary Land, the Moscovian species Idiognathodus incurvus and the Kasimovian—Gzhelian I. magnificus occur in the Upper Carboniferous Foldedal Formation, while an assemblage from the lower part of the succeeding Kim Fjelde Formation suggests deposition in the Upper Artinskian Neostreptognathodus pequopensis—N . clarki Zone. These datings confirm the existence in the northern part of the Wandel Sea Basin of the pronounced early Permian hiatus previously recognized in Holm Land and Amdrup Land in the southern part of the basin. The single conodont specimen found at Prinsesse Ingeborg Halvø further corrobates the local absence of this regional hiatus in the central part of the Wandel Sea Basin.

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