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: Cape Stewart Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)
• 69 m below top of fossiliferous measured section in Cape Stewart
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithified, yellow sandstone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
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 23931: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 24.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stachyotaxus elegans Nathorst 1908 | |
Anomozamites minor Nathorst 1878 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Amphorispermum ellipticum Harris 1932 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908
"Equisetites muensteri" = Equisetum muensteri Sternberg 1833 horsetail |