C. Stewart E. muensteri (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: 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

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

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

 Coniferales - Palissyaceae
Stachyotaxus elegans Nathorst 1908
 Bennettitales -
Anomozamites minor Nathorst 1878
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales -
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908
"Equisetites muensteri" = Equisetum muensteri Sternberg 1833 horsetail