Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (80.3° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 57.0° N, 26.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fosheim Member (Heiberg Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 183.0 Ma)
• upper part of Fosheim Member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• Locality USPC69 Collected by J.F. Basinger and D.L. Dilcher, 1982 and Ash and Ash, 1985
Primary reference: S. R. Ash and J. F. Basinger. 1991. A high latitude Upper Triassic flora from the Heiberg Formation, Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Archipelago. Contributions to Canadian Paleontology, Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 412:101-131 [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 23976: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 25.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Czekanowskia sp. Heer 1876 | |
Sphenobaiera spectabilis Nathorst 1936 | |
Ginkgo siberica ginkgo | |
Cycadopsida | |
Taeniopteris tenuinervis cycads | |
Swedenborgia | |
Podozamites sp. Braun 1843 podocarp |