Notes on the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Fish Faunas of Northern West Greenland. Meddr dansk geol. Foren
Fossil elasmobranchs and actinopterygians collected from Creta-ceous and Early Tertiary deposits in northern West Greenland are recorded. Elasmobranch genera and species from the Kangilia and Agatdal Formations make it evident that these formations are of different age, as demonstrated also by the i...
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1969
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.627.7171 http://2dgf.dk/xpdf/bull19-02-204-217.pdf |
| Summary: | Fossil elasmobranchs and actinopterygians collected from Creta-ceous and Early Tertiary deposits in northern West Greenland are recorded. Elasmobranch genera and species from the Kangilia and Agatdal Formations make it evident that these formations are of different age, as demonstrated also by the invertebrate faunas. The opinion that the West Greenland area and the Dano-Scanian Basin were parts of the same ocean in early Danian time is corroborated by the high degree of similarity between the selachoid faunas of the Greenlandic Lower Danian Kangilia Formation and the Lower and Middle Danian in Dano-Scania. The Agatdal Formation selachoids and batoids show, as regards genera and species, a high degree of similarity to the Upper Paleocene selachian faunas of Europa and North Africa, and a more remote affinity to that of the Paleocene Aquia Formation of |
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