Spath Plateau, between River 8 and 9 (Permian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (74.0° N, 21.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 14.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ravnefjeld Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Posidonomya-schiefer. Fish mostly (entirely?) derive from lower carbonate band.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Lauge Koch in 1930-1934

Primary reference: H. Aldinger. 1937. Permische ganoidfische aus Ostgrönland. Meddelelser om Grønland 102(3):1-392 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121974: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Palaeoniscus ? freieslebeni Blainville 1818
juvenile
 Palaeonisciformes - Pygopteridae
Pygopterus nielseni Aldinger 1937
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
Plegmolepis groenlandica Aldinger 1937 ray-finned fish