Pentamerus Range Explained

Pentamerus Range
Other Name:	Pentamerus Bjerge
Length Orientation:	NE/SW
Width Orientation:	NW/SE
Range Coordinates:	80.65°N -94°W
Period:	Lower Silurian
Map:	Greenland

The Pentamerus Range (Danish: Pentamerus Bjerge)^[1] is a mountain range in far northwestern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of Avannaata municipality. The area of the range is uninhabited.^[2]

This mountain chain was named after the Pentamerus fossils dating back to the Lower Silurian that have been found in it.^[3]

Geography

The Pentamerus Range is an up to almost 1,000 m high mountain range in Daugaard-Jensen Land. It runs roughly from northeast to southwest.^[1]

See also

• List of mountain ranges of Greenland
• Peary Land Group

Bibliography

• Greenland geology and selected mineral occurrences - GEUS

External links

• Geological map of Greenland - 1 : 500 000 - Polygon Legend - GEUS

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pentamerus Bjerge. Mapcarta. 9 January 2019.
2. [Google Earth]
3. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/geological-magazine/article/an-early-silurian-herefordshire-myodocope-ostracod-from-greenland-and-its-palaeoecological-and-palaeobiogeographical-significance/F125F7A6AC2C48F13261D30D771D1676 An Early Silurian ‘Herefordshire’ myodocope ostracod from Greenland and its palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical significance