Also known as Transition 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: Transition zone, Cape Stewart Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)
• 54 m below the top of the plant bearing part of the Cape Stewart Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; yellow sandstone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
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 23944: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 24.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Sagenopteris nilssoniana Brongniart 1825 | |
Peltaspermopsida | |
"Stenopteris dinosaurensis" = Rhaphidopteris
"Stenopteris dinosaurensis" = Rhaphidopteris | |
Pterophyllum subaequale Hartz 1896 |