Also known as Thaumatopteris Zone
Where: Greenland (70.5° N, 22.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 5.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Thaumopteris zone, Cape Stewart Formation, Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)
• 20-25 m below top of plant bearing beds in Cape Stewart Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; yellow sandstone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: bulk, 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 23955: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 24.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Dictyophyllum nilssoni Brongniart 1836 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Pterophyllum subaequale Hartz 1896 | |
Sphenopsida | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Sphenobaiera spectabilis Nathorst 1936 | |
Ginkgoites | |
Storgaardia spectabilis | |
Storgaardia spectabilis Harris 1935 | |
Swedenborgia | |
Swedenborgia spp. Nathorst 1876 | |
Peltaspermopsida | |
"Stenopteris dinosaurensis" = Rhaphidopteris
"Stenopteris dinosaurensis" = Rhaphidopteris |