Cape Stosch, plateau west of River 6, Locality 201 (Triassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (74.0° N, 21.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 12.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wordie Creek Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)

• 215 m in section, from a loose block

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Lauge Koch, Noe-Nygaard, Bogvad in 1930-1931

Primary reference: L. F. Spath. 1935. Additions to the Eo-Triassic invertebrate fauna of east Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 98(2):1-115 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118489: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
"Bellerophon borealis" = Warthia borealis
"Bellerophon borealis" = Warthia borealis Spath 1930 snail
Bivalvia
 Pterioida - Prospondylidea
"Enantiostreon cf. difforme" = Terquemia difformis
"Enantiostreon cf. difforme" = Terquemia difformis Schlotheim 1820 clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
"Pseudomonotis (Eumorphotis) cf. venetiana" = Eumorphotis venetiana
"Pseudomonotis (Eumorphotis) cf. venetiana" = Eumorphotis venetiana Hauer 1850 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
? Anomia (? Placunopsis) sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
"Myalina aff. schamarae" = Promyalina schamarae
"Myalina aff. schamarae" = Promyalina schamarae Bittner 1899 clam
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
"Anodontophora borealis n. sp." = Unionites borealis
"Anodontophora borealis n. sp." = Unionites borealis Spath 1935 clam
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula borealis" = Lingularia borealis
"Lingula borealis" = Lingularia borealis Bittner 1899
 Lingulida - Discinidae
"Orbiculoidea cf. spitsbergensis" = Orbiculoidea spitzbergensis
"Orbiculoidea cf. spitsbergensis" = Orbiculoidea spitzbergensis Lundgren 1887