Vardekloft Neocalamites (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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lepidopteris zone, Cape Stewart Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, yellow sandstone and lithified shale

• 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),

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 23461: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 15.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908
"Equisetites muensteri" = Equisetum muensteri Sternberg 1833 horsetail
Cycadocarpidium
  -
Cycadocarpidium spp. Nathorst 1886
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales -
 Czekanowskiales -
Hartzia tenuis Harris 1935
 Coniferales - Palissyaceae
Stachyotaxus elegans Nathorst 1908
 Bennettitales -
Anomozamites minor Nathorst 1878