Primula R. Lower: Late/Upper Triassic, Greenland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bennettitales
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Anomozamites minor
Nathorst 1878
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Pterophyllum schenki
Zeiller 1886
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Pterophyllum ptilum
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Pterophyllum pinnatifidum
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Pterophyllum xiphipterum
Harris 1932
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Polypodiopsida
- Osmundaceae
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Acrostichites goeppertianus
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Polypodiopsida
- Polypodiaceae
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Clathropteris meniscoides
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Polypodiopsida
- Gleicheniales
- Dipteridaceae
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Dictyophyllum exile
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Equisetaceae
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Equisetites muensteri
Sternberg 1833
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recombined as Equisetum muensteri | |||||||
Equisetites laevis
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Calamitaceae
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Neocalamites hoerensis
Schimper 1908
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unclassified
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Cycadocarpidium spp.
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Peltaspermopsida
- Peltaspermales
- Umkomasiaceae
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Ptilozamites nilssoni
(Nathorst 1878)
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misspelling Ptilozamites nilssonii | |||||||
Peltaspermopsida
- Peltaspermales
- Peltaspermaceae
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Lepidopteris ottonis
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Greenland |
Coordinates: | 70.5° North, 22.6° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 44.3° North, 1.4° West |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 3-4 | ||
*Period: | Late/Upper Triassic - Early/Lower Jurassic | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Triassic | Zone: | Lepidopteris |
Age range of interval: | 237.00000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Cape Stewart | ||||
Local section: | Primula R. | Local bed: | Lower | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 80-90m below top of series |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | yellow lithified sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
Lithology description: lagoonal facies formed by disused parts of river channels where much finer sediments were deposited | |
Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Lepidopteris Zone | ||
Database number: | 23452 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Rees | Enterer: | D. Sunderlin |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | paleobotany |
Created: | 2002-07-15 09:53:22 | Last modified: | 2005-12-13 13:18:37 |
Access level: | group members | Released: | 2002-07-15 09:53:22 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6704. | PGAP | T. M. Harris. 1937. Stratigraphic relations of the plant beds. The Fossil Flora of Scoresby Sound, East Greenland [A. Rees/D. Sunderlin/D. Sunderlin] |