Where: Greenland (74.0° N, 21.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 12.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wordie Creek Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• 340 m in section
• group of beds-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 118525: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ophiceras spp., "Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) commune" = Ophiceras commune, Ophiceras (Discophiceras) kochi, "Ophiceras (Discophiceras) cf. wordiei" = Discophiceras wordiei, Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) subsakuntala
Ophiceras spp. Griesbach 1880 ceratite
"Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) commune" = Ophiceras commune Spath 1930 ceratite
Ophiceras (Discophiceras) kochi Spath 1930 ceratite
"Ophiceras (Discophiceras) cf. wordiei" = Discophiceras wordiei Spath 1930 ceratite
Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) subsakuntala Spath 1935 ceratite | |
"Otoceras boreale" = Otoceras woodwardi
"Otoceras boreale" = Otoceras woodwardi Griesbach 1880 ceratite | |
"Glyptophiceras subextremum" = Tompophiceras extremum, "Glyptophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile, "Glyptophiceras nielseni" = Hypophiceras gracile
"Glyptophiceras subextremum" = Tompophiceras extremum Spath 1935 ceratite
"Glyptophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile Spath 1930 ceratite | |
Glyptophiceras cf. minor Spath 1930 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pseudomonotis (Claraia) stachei" = Claraia stachei
"Pseudomonotis (Claraia) stachei" = Claraia stachei Bittner 1901 scallop | |
Lingulata | |
"Lingula borealis" = Lingularia borealis
"Lingula borealis" = Lingularia borealis Bittner 1899 |