Carboniferous algal microflora, Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations, Holm Land and Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland

Authors

  • Bernard L. Mamet Département de géologie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
  • Lars Stemmerik Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Thoravej 8, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v187.5196

Keywords:

Calcareous algae,, Carboniferous, Groenlandella,, North Greenland,, Uraloporella,, Wandel Sea Basin

Abstract

A diverse assemblage of calcareous algae was recorded from the Moscovian–Gzelian Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations in Amdrup Land and Holm Land. The flora, consisting of 25 species, is dominated by rhodophytes and chlorophytes, most of them similar to or identical with species previously recognised in the Sverdrup Basin of Arctic Canada. One new genus and species, Groenlandella enigmatica n.gen. et n.sp., has been erected and is apparently endemic to the Wandel Sea Basin. The composition of the Greenland algal flora indicates that it belongs to the Uraloporella flora of the present-day northern hemisphere (Arctic Canada, Svalbard and Arctic Russia).

Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 187 cover

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Published

2000-10-20

How to Cite

Mamet, B. L., & Stemmerik, L. . (2000). Carboniferous algal microflora, Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations, Holm Land and Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 187, 79–101. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v187.5196

Issue

Vol. 187 (2000): Palynology and deposition in the Wandel Sea Basin, eastern North Greenland

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

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