Zamites R. (Triassic of Greenland)

Also known as Lepidopteris Zone

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 1.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lepidopteris zone, Cape Stewart Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• 80-90 m below the top of the plant bearing part of the Cape Stewart Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, yellow sandstone and lithified siltstone

• lagoonal facies formed by disused parts of river channels where much finer sediments were deposited

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical

Primary reference: T. M. Harris. 1937. Stratigraphic relations of the plant beds. The Fossil Flora of Scoresby Sound, East Greenland [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23448: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 15.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
 Peltaspermales - Umkomasiaceae
"Ptilozamites nilssoni" = Ptilozamites nilssonii
"Ptilozamites nilssoni" = Ptilozamites nilssonii Nathorst 1878
 Coniferales - Palissyaceae
Stachyotaxus elegans Nathorst 1908
 Bennettitales -
Doratophyllum astartensis
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Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae