Also known as Lepidopteris Zone
Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 1.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lepidopteris zone, Cape Stewart Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)
• 69 m below the top of plant bearing part of Cape Stewart Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; yellow sandstone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: bulk, 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 23932: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 24.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Peltaspermopsida | |
| Cycadocarpidium | |
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Cycadocarpidium spp. Nathorst 1886 | |
| Ginkgoopsida | |
Bysmatospermum macrotrachelum, Vardekloeftia sulcata, Pterophyllum ptilum, Pterophyllum schenki, Anomozamites minor
Bysmatospermum macrotrachelum Harris 1935
Vardekloeftia sulcata Harris 1932
Pterophyllum schenki Zeiller 1886
Anomozamites minor Nathorst 1878 | |
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Stachyotaxus elegans Nathorst 1908 | |
| Polypodiopsida | |
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Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908 | |
| Pteridopsida | |