Upper Carboniferous (Late Pennsylvanian) microfossils from the Wandel Sea Basin, Peary Land, eastern North Greenland

Abstract

The folIowing account identifies and discusses the microfauna. and microtlora from samples of Upper Carboniferous limestone collected from Hellefiskefjord in eastern Peary Land (fig. 4) by J. C. TroeIsen during 1949 when a member of the Danish Peary Land Expedition (1947-1950). The samples were obtained from a section ofIimestones and shales which, as far as currently known, comprises the basal unit in the Hellefiskefjord llfea ofthe Wandel Sea Sedimentary Basin (Peel et al., 1974). The age ofthe samples is considered to be Late Pennsylvanian (Late Virgilian?), confirming the suggestion made by TroeIsen (1950) on the basis of the occurrence of Triticites.