Where: Greenland (74.0° N, 21.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 12.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wordie Creek Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• 317 m height
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
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 118625: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tentaculita | |
""Spirorbis" valvata" = Microconchus valvatus
""Spirorbis" valvata" = Microconchus valvatus Munster 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pseudomonotis (Claraia) stachei" = Claraia stachei
"Pseudomonotis (Claraia) stachei" = Claraia stachei Bittner 1901 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) cf. ptychodes" = Ophiceras medium, "Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) commune" = Ophiceras commune, Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) cf. kilenense
"Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) cf. ptychodes" = Ophiceras medium Griesbach 1880 ceratite
"Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) commune" = Ophiceras commune Spath 1930 ceratite
Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) cf. kilenense Spath 1935 ceratite |