Also known as Jameson Land, area V
Where: Greenland (71.4° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 2.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Malmros Klint Member (Fleming Fjord Formation), Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)
• fossils at several levels within member; informally called the Carlsberg Fjord Beds and the Tait Bjerg Beds; middle Norian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; red, blue, silty, conglomeratic claystone and dolomitic, gray, yellow limestone
•Tait Bjerg Beds: "The beds are composed of cyclically bedded, dark, clastic mudstones and lightgrey or yellowish, impure limestones or dolomitic limestones and clastic sandstones."
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: F. A. Jenkins, N. H. Shubin, W. W. Amaral, S. M. Gatesy, C. R. Schaff, L. B. Clemmensen, W. R. Downs, A. R. Davidson, N. Bonde and F. Osbaeck. 1994. Late Triassic continental vertebrates and depositional environments of the Fleming Fjord Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience 32:1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192868: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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