Cape Stosch (Triassic of Greenland)
Where: Greenland (73.9° N, 21.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 12.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Wordie Creek Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• This is an out of place block
Environment/lithology: offshore; micaceous, gray, green sandstone
• Dr. Kock found the loose block of greenish-grey micaceous sandstone, teeming with fossils.
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: L. F. Spath. 1930. The Eotriassic invertebrate fauna of East Greenland. Meddeleser om Grønland 83(1):1-90 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48115: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 14.03.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham
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Taxonomic list
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| Lingulata | |
"Lingula borealis" = Lingularia borealis
"Lingula borealis" = Lingularia borealis Bittner 1899 | |
| Bivalvia | |
"Enantiostreon cf. difforme" = Terquemia difformis
"Enantiostreon cf. difforme" = Terquemia difformis Schlotheim 1820 clam | |
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Promyalina groenlandica Newell 1955 clam | |
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Eumorphotis cf. venetiana Hauer 1850 scallop | |
"Anodontophora cf. subrecta" = Unionites subrectus, "Anodontophora spp." = Unionites, "Anodontophora aff. canalensis" = Unionites canalensis
"Anodontophora cf. subrecta" = Unionites subrectus Bittner 1901 clam
"Anodontophora spp." = Unionites Wissman 1841 clam
"Anodontophora aff. canalensis" = Unionites canalensis Catullo 1847 clam | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Glyptophiceras sp. Spath 1930 ceratite | |
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Ophiceras aff. subsakuntala Spath 1935 ceratite | |
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Otoceras sp. Griesbach 1880 ceratite | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Bellerophon borealis" = Warthia borealis
"Bellerophon borealis" = Warthia borealis Spath 1930 snail | |
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Worthenia cf. humilis Böhm 1895 snail | |