Ellesmere Island 2 (Triassic to of Canada)

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

• brown-weathering

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
  - Osmundaceae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908
Ginkgoopsida
 Czekanowskiales -
Czekanowskia sp. Heer 1876
 Ginkgoales -
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Swedenborgia
  -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites sp. Braun 1843 podocarp