Astarte "B" (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

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 65 m below the top of the plant bearing sequence of the Cape Stewart Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; 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), 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 23937: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 24.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Umkomasiaceae
"Ptilozamites nilssoni" = Ptilozamites nilssonii
"Ptilozamites nilssoni" = Ptilozamites nilssonii Nathorst 1878
 Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Polypodiopsida
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
  - Polypodiaceae
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
 Bennettitales -