Where: Greenland (74.0° N, 21.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 12.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wordie Creek Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• 411-436 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 118651: 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 | |
Glyptophiceras aff. minimum Spath 1935 ceratite | |
"Glyptophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile, "Glyptophiceras aff. nielseni" = Hypophiceras gracile, "Glyptophiceras aff. pseudellipticum" = Hypophiceras gracile, "Glyptophiceras cf. extremum" = Tompophiceras extremum, "Glyptophiceras pascoei" = Tompophiceras pascoei
"Glyptophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile Spath 1930 ceratite
"Glyptophiceras aff. nielseni" = Hypophiceras gracile Spath 1930 ceratite
"Glyptophiceras aff. pseudellipticum" = Hypophiceras gracile Spath 1930 ceratite
"Glyptophiceras cf. extremum" = Tompophiceras extremum Spath 1935 ceratite
"Glyptophiceras pascoei" = Tompophiceras pascoei Spath 1930 ceratite | |
"Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) commune" = Ophiceras commune, Ophiceras (Acanthophiceras) poulseni n. sp., "Ophiceras (Discophiceras) wordiei" = Discophiceras wordiei
Ophiceras (Acanthophiceras) poulseni n. sp. Spath 1935 ceratite
"Ophiceras (Discophiceras) wordiei" = Discophiceras wordiei Spath 1930 ceratite |