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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
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Pygopterus nielseni Aldinger 1937 | |
Plegmolepis groenlandica Aldinger 1937 ray-finned fish |