Open AccessGordia nodosa isp nov and other trace fossils from the Cass Fjord Formation (Cambrian) of North Greenland
Author(s) -
Ron K. Pickerill,
J.S Peel
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v150.8136
Subject(s) - fjord , trace fossil , paleontology , geology , oceanography
A new ichnospecies, Gordia nodosa isp. nov., is figured and described from member D of the Cass Fjord Formation of Daugaard-Jensen Land, western North Greenland. Strata of Member D are Dresbachian in age and thus the new trace fossil is from the latest Middle Cambrian or earliest Late Cambrian. Two additional stabs from underlying members B and C of the Formation contain, respectively, the ichnotaxa Diplichnites Dawson, 1873, cf. Monocraterion Torell, 1870 and Palaeophycus tubularis, Hall, 1847, and Cruziana problematica (Schindewolf, 1921). These ichnotaxa are figured and described briefly.