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)
• 616-629 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 118677: 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 | |
"Pseudomonotis (Eumorphotis) aff. iwanowi" = Eumorphotis iwanowi
"Pseudomonotis (Eumorphotis) aff. iwanowi" = Eumorphotis iwanowi Bittner 1899 scallop | |
"Myalina aff. schamarae" = Promyalina schamarae
"Myalina aff. schamarae" = Promyalina schamarae Bittner 1899 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Bellerophon borealis" = Warthia borealis
"Bellerophon borealis" = Warthia borealis Spath 1930 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Prionolobus "sp. nov." Waagen 1895 ceratite | |
Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) ultimum Spath 1935 ceratite |