Also known as Lepidopteris Zone
Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 1.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lepidopteris zone, Cape Stewart Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)
• 80-90m below top of series
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, yellow sandstone and lithified siltstone
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 23452: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 15.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908
"Equisetites muensteri" = Equisetum muensteri Sternberg 1833 horsetail | |
Pterophyllum ptilum, Pterophyllum pinnatifidum, Pterophyllum xiphipterum, Anomozamites minor, Pterophyllum schenki
Pterophyllum xiphipterum Harris 1932
Anomozamites minor Nathorst 1878
Pterophyllum schenki Zeiller 1886 | |
Peltaspermopsida | |
"Ptilozamites nilssoni" = Ptilozamites nilssonii
"Ptilozamites nilssoni" = Ptilozamites nilssonii Nathorst 1878 | |
Cycadocarpidium | |
Cycadocarpidium spp. Nathorst 1886 |