Open AccessThe Ordovician trilobite Pseudogygites from Greenland
Author(s) -
P.D Lane
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v132.7968
Subject(s) - ordovician , trilobite , geology , fjord , paleontology , geography , oceanography
A single pygidium from GGU sample 316082 here referred to Pseudogygites Kobayashi, 1934 represents the first record of this genus from Greenland (fig. 1). It was collected from the Aleqatsiaq Fjord Formation at the type scction in Washington Land, western North Greenland from the dark shale noted by Hurst (1980, p. 17, fig. 7).