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
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 | |
"Anodontophora fassaensis" = Unionites fassaensis1
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Amphibia | |
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"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
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? Stoschiosaurus "new species?", Stoschiosaurus nielseni n. gen. n. sp., ? Stoschiosaurus nielseni, ? Lyrocephalinae indet.
Stoschiosaurus nielseni n. gen. n. sp. Säve-Söderbergh 1935 tetrapod MGUH VP At.6, partial skull (holotype)
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