Cape Stosch, river 16 (Otocerasdal), locality 297 (Triassic of Greenland)

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)

• 648 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 118700: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Proptychites intermedius n. sp. Spath 1935 ceratite
Proptychites rosenkrantzi Spath 1930 ceratite
Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
"Pseudomonotis (Claraia) stachei" = Claraia stachei
"Pseudomonotis (Claraia) stachei" = Claraia stachei Bittner 1901 scallop