Open AccessArchaeocyatha from the Lower Cambrian of Peary Land, central North Greenland
Author(s) -
Françoise Debrenne,
John S. Peel
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v132.7963
Subject(s) - fjord , taxon , paleontology , geology , geography , oceanography
Archaeocyatha are reported from the Paralleldal Formation of the Brønlund Fjord Group, Peary Land, central North Greenland. Three new species are described and assigned to genera known from the upper part of the Lower Cambrian on the Siberian platform and in the Altai fold belt region. New taxa: Tegerocyathella inesoni sp. nov., Tegerocyathus greenlandensis sp. nov., Archaeocyathus pearylandensis sp. nov.