Where: Greenland (73.9° N, 21.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 12.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Wordie Creek Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• The ammonoid fauna listed suggests bith Lower and Upper Griesbachian beds were sampled
Environment/lithology: claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. F. Spath. 1930. The Eotriassic invertebrate fauna of East Greenland. Meddeleser om Grønland 83(1):1-90 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48113: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 14.03.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tentaculita | |
"Spirorbis valvata" = Microconchus valvatus
"Spirorbis valvata" = Microconchus valvatus Munster 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Gervilleia aff. exporrecta" = Bakevellia exporrecta
"Gervilleia aff. exporrecta" = Bakevellia exporrecta Lepsius 1878 oyster | |
Enantiostreon sp. Bittner 1901 scallop | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Claraia stachei Bittner 1901 scallop | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Glyptophiceras sp. Spath 1930 ceratite | |
"Hypophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile, "Glyptophiceras pseudellipticum" = Hypophiceras gracile, "Ophiceras demissum" = Metophiceras demissum, "Glyptophiceras pascoei" = Tompophiceras pascoei
"Hypophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile Spath 1930 ceratite
"Glyptophiceras pseudellipticum" = Hypophiceras gracile Spath 1930 ceratite
"Glyptophiceras pascoei" = Tompophiceras pascoei Spath 1930 ceratite | |
Ophiceras commune, Ophiceras gibbosum, "Ophiceras chamunda" = Ophiceras medium, Ophiceras subsakuntala, Discophiceras wordiei, "Ophiceras kochi" = Ophiceras (Discophiceras) kochi
Ophiceras commune Spath 1930 ceratite
Ophiceras gibbosum Griesbach 1880 ceratite
"Ophiceras chamunda" = Ophiceras medium Griesbach 1880 ceratite
Ophiceras subsakuntala Spath 1935 ceratite
Discophiceras wordiei Spath 1930 ceratite
"Ophiceras kochi" = Ophiceras (Discophiceras) kochi Spath 1930 ceratite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Bellerophon borealis" = Warthia borealis
"Bellerophon borealis" = Warthia borealis Spath 1930 snail | |
Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808 snail | |
Naticopsis arctica snail |