western Sydkronen (Triassic of Greenland)

Also known as area VIII, Jameson Land

Where: Greenland (71.8° N, 23.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 2.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ørsted Dal Formation (Fleming Fjord Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• from the informal Bjergkronerne Beds; middle Norian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; siliciclastic sediments

• coarse-grained siliciclastic unit

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1992

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

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 26998: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.11.2002, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Aetosaurus ferratus, "Paratypothoracini indet." = Paratypothoracisini2
Aetosaurus ferratus Fraas 1877 aetosaur
MCZ field no. 22/92G, disarticulated partial skeletons, including a skull, maxilla, lower jaw and postcranial material
"Paratypothoracini indet." = Paratypothoracisini2 Parker 2007 aetosaur
MCZ field no. 23/92G, three partial dermal scutes
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
MCZ, disassociated vertebrae and ribs, partial pelvis and hindlim
 Saurischia - Plateosauridae
"Plateosaurus longiceps" = Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis1
"Plateosaurus longiceps" = Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis1 Huene 1905 plateosaurid