Abstract
Acritarchs are described from rocks of the Upper Proterozoic Eleonore Bay Group and Tillite Group and from the Lower Cambrian Bastion Formation and Ella Island Formation. Twenty-four previously described acritarch taxa have been identified. The state of preservation is variable perhaps depending on variable thermal alteration due to thickness of overburden, tectonic deformation and metamorphism. Palaeoenvironmental aspects of some acritarchs are discussed. The acritarchs of the Ella Island Formation and Upper Bastion Formation indicate a late Early Cambrian age in agreement with the age indicated by shelly faunas. A Vendian age is ascribed to the Tillite Group. The upper part of the Eleonore Bay Group is regarded as Late Riphean. Correlations of these units with Lower Cambrian and Upper Proterozoic sequences in the Russian Platform, Scandinavia and elsewhere are presented.
Highlights
This paper deals with the results of a micropalaeontological investigation of the Upper Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian sequence in the Caledonian fold belt of East Greenland in the area west of Kong Oscars Fjord
Reference is made in the present paper to my previous account on the microfossils of the Visingso Beds in southern Sweden (Vidal, 1976a) which includes a compilation of most of the relevant data available at the time
The samples yielding fully identifiable microfossils are considered, and the results indicate that roughly 52 per cent of the processed samples are fossiliferous
Summary
This paper deals with the results of a micropalaeontological investigation of the Upper Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian sequence in the Caledonian fold belt of East Greenland in the area west of Kong Oscars Fjord (fig. 1). Nine samples from the Lower Limestone-Dolomite 'Series' (no bed numbers distinguished) at location 10 Acritarchs preserved in full relief are restricted to a few samples of the Bastion Formation, Tillite Group and Limestone-Dolomite 'Series'.
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