Cape Stosch, Ridge VIII-IX, Myalina kochi horizon (Triassic of Greenland)

Also known as Kap Stosch

Where: Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland (74.0° N, 21.7° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 12.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wordy Creek Formation, Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)

• From the "Myalina kochi" horizon of the Anodontophora fassaensis beds, youngest of the Wordy Creek temnospondyl yielding horizons. Earliest Triassic (Induan) in age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandy claystone and sandstone

• Nearshore marine environment

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by Nielsen in 1932-1933

Collection methods: mechanical,

• MGUH: Museum Geologicum Universitatis Hafniensis, Copenhagen

Primary reference: G. Säve-Söderbergh. 1935. On the dermal bones of the head in labyrinthodont stegocephalians and primitive Reptilia, with special reference to Eotriassic stegocephalians from East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 98(3):1-211 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143870: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 26.04.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
"Anodontophora fassaensis" = Unionites fassaensis1
"Anodontophora fassaensis" = Unionites fassaensis1 Wissmann 1841 clam
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet.2 tetrapod
MGUH VP At. 5, 10-16, 18-22, 33-38
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
"Wetlugasaurus groenlandicus n. sp." = Selenocara groenlandica
"Wetlugasaurus groenlandicus n. sp." = Selenocara groenlandica Bjerring 1997 tetrapod
MGUH VP 3339, posterior skull fragment (holotype). MGUH VP 3340, skull fragment
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
? Stoschiosaurus "new species?" Säve-Söderbergh 1935 tetrapod
MGUH VP At.9, partial skull
Stoschiosaurus nielseni n. gen. n. sp. Säve-Söderbergh 1935 tetrapod
MGUH VP At.6, partial skull (holotype)
? Stoschiosaurus nielseni Säve-Söderbergh 1935 tetrapod
MGUH VP At.7, 8, two partial skulls
? Lyrocephalinae indet. Säve-Söderbergh 1935 tetrapod
MGUH VP At.4, skull fragment