Vardekloft Stachyotaxus (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 - 201.4 Ma)

• 72 m below the top of the plant bearing part of the Cape Stewart Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: bulk, 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 23479: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 15.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Bennettitales -
 Coniferales - Palissyaceae
Stachyotaxus elegans Nathorst 1908
Polypodiopsida
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Pteridopsida
  -
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Cycadocarpidium
  -
Cycadocarpidium spp. Nathorst 1886