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.
Highlights
The folIowing account identifies and discusses the microfauna. and microtlora from samples of Upper Carboniferous limestone collected from Hellefiskefjord in eastern Peary Land by J
The name Wandel Sea Basin was proposed by Dawes & Soper (1973) for an extensive series of Carboniferous to Tertiary sediments preserved as outIiers in eastern North Greenland
A summary ofthe Wandel Sea Basin sequence in eastern Peary Land is given by Peelet al. (1974)
Summary
The basal unit in the section measured by TroeIsen in Hellefiskefjord is a basic sill intruded into folded Silurian sediments (section height O- c. 10m). The basal unit in the section measured by TroeIsen in Hellefiskefjord is a basic sill intruded into folded Silurian sediments Samples in the overlying Carboniferous are referred to a datum in a thin violet shale about 25 cm in thickness at a section height of c. Sample 171 75-100 cm under the violet shale, section height c.
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