western slope, Tait Bjerg (Tait Bjerg beds) (Triassic of Greenland)

Also known as area VI, Jameson Land

Where: Greenland (71.5° N, 22.7° W: paleocoordinates 50.1° N, 2.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ørsted Dal Member (Fleming Fjord Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• informally called the Tait Bjerg Beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; dolomitic, gray, yellow limestone and intraclastic mudstone

• dolomitic limestone; Tait Bjerg beds are "mixed clastics and carbonates", and "composed of cyclically bedded, dark, clastic mudstones and lightgrey or yellowish, impure limestones or dolomitic limestones and clastic sandstones."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1991

Collection methods: 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 27007: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eosuchia -
? Lepidosauria indet. Haeckel 1866 lepidosaur
 Lepidosauria -
Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
MCZ 64/91G 3, 5-7, 10
Osteichthyes
 Morganucodonta - Morganucodontidae
cf. Brachyzostrodon sp. Sigogneau-Russell 1983 mammaliaform
MCZ 64/91G 4, molariform tooth
 Therapsida - Kuehneotheriidae
Kuehneotherium sp. Kermack et al. 1968 mammaliaform
MCZ 64/91G 8, 9, molariform teeth