Ellesmere Island 3 (Triassic to of Canada)

Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (79.6° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 56.3° N, 26.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fosheim Member (Heiberg Formation), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 183.0 Ma)

• 76m below the top of the Fosheim Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; lithified, gray sandstone

• brown weathering

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical

• Locality USPC70. Collected by S.R. Ash and H.O. 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 23977: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Dave Sunderlin on 25.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Anthrophyopsis sp. Nathorst 1878 cycads
 Cordaitales -
Pelourdea sp. Seward 1917
Ginkgoopsida
 Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
 Ginkgoales -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Podozamites sp. Braun 1843 podocarp
Polypodiopsida
  -
Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
  - Polypodiaceae
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908