Astarte R. T. princeps (Triassic of Greenland)

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

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

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
  - Osmundaceae
  - Polypodiaceae
Ginkgoopsida
 Czekanowskiales -
 Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris nilssoniana Brongniart 1825
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Umkomasiaceae
"Stenopteris dinosaurensis" = Rhaphidopteris
"Stenopteris dinosaurensis" = Rhaphidopteris
 Bennettitales -