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Open AccessMorphology and ecology of the bradoriid arthropods Spinospitella and Nikolarites from the Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia)
Tuberculate fragments referred to Nikolarites spasskyi are compared with a complete carapace and other material of Spinospitella from Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4 in North Greenland. The descriptions expand earlier...
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Open AccessEdiacaran Doushantuo-type biota discovered in Laurentia
The Ediacaran period (635–541 Ma) was a time of major environmental change, accompanied by a transition from a microbial world to the animal world we know today. Multicellular, macroscopic organisms preserved ...
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Open AccessUnusual preservation of an Ordovician (Floian) arthropod from Peary Land, North Greenland (Laurentia)
Preservation of a fragment of an arthropod from starved trough sediments of the Bøggild Fjord Formation (Ordovician, Floian) of Johannes V. Jensen Land in north Peary Land, North Greenland, recalls that of the...
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Dasyclad-like problematic fossils from the lower Cambrian of North Greenland
The problematic fossil Kordesphecia nyeboensis gen. et sp. nov. from the lower Cambrian of North Greenland resembles the slightly younger, putative dasycladalean alga Amgaella Korde, 1957 in terms of its spirally...
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Open AccessArthroaspisn. gen., a common element of the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (Cambrian, North Greenland), sheds light on trilobite ancestry
Exceptionally preserved Palaeozoic faunas have yielded a plethora of trilobite-like arthropods, often referred to as lamellipedians. Among these, Artiopoda is supposed to contain taxa united by a distinctive a...
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Problematic cap-shaped fossils from the Lower Cambrian of North-East Greenland
Drei Arten vonOcruranus Liu, 1979 aus der mittelkambrischen Bastion-Formation (mittleres Dyeran in nordamerikanischer Gliederung) in Nord-Ost Grönland werden beschrieben. Die Funde stellen...
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The Northern Margin of Greenland from Baffin Bay to the Greenland Sea
Greenland, with a surface area of about 2,186,000 km2, is the largest island in the world. It is composed of a central depression, now totally filled by the Inland Ice, and a mountainous coastal “ice-free” zone f...
