A revised stratigraphy for the Palaeocene Agatdalen flora (Nuussuaq Peninsula, western Greenland): correlating fossiliferous outcrops, macrofossils, and palynological samples from phosphoritic nodules

• Published in: Acta Palaeobotanica
• Main Authors: Grímsson Friđgeir, Pedersen Gunver Krarup, Grimm Guido W., Zetter Reinhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences 2016
• Subjects: plant macrofossils; palynomorphs; pollen; spores; phosphoritic nodules; Danian; early Cenozoic; Paleontology; QE701-760; Botany; QK1-989; Greenland; Nuussuaq; Heer
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/acpa-2016-0009; https://doaj.org/article/684e90bbc2134ef392f2a3319e2e98ea

The Cretaceous and Palaeogene floras of western Greenland that were initially described as part of the classical work “Flora fossilis arctica” by Oswald Heer in the 19th century are currently under revision. The Nuussuaq Basin has repeatedly been investigated by geologists and marine invertebrate pa...