Astarte R. "D" (Triassic of Greenland)

Also known as Transition Zone

Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 1.4° W)

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

• 58 m from top of plant bearing part of 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 23943: 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
Polypodiopsida
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Ontheodendron
  -
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales - Nilssoniaceae
Cycadocarpidium
  -
Cycadocarpidium spp. Nathorst 1886
Swedenborgia
  -
Swedenborgia spp. Nathorst 1876
Ginkgoopsida
 Czekanowskiales -
 Coniferales - Palissyaceae
Stachyotaxus elegans Nathorst 1908
 Bennettitales -
Anomozamites minor Nathorst 1878