Vardekloft Neocalamites: Late/Upper Triassic, Greenland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Calamitaceae
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Neocalamites hoerensis
Schimper 1908
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Equisetaceae
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Equisetites laevis
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Equisetites muensteri
Sternberg 1833
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recombined as Equisetum muensteri | |||||||
Polypodiopsida
- Gleicheniales
- Dipteridaceae
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Dictyophyllum exile
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Polypodiopsida
- Polypodiales
- Dryopteridaceae
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Ctenis nilssoni
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Bennettitales
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Anomozamites minor
Nathorst 1878
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Vardekloeftia sulcata
Harris 1932
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Coniferales
- Palissyaceae
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Stachyotaxus elegans
Nathorst 1908
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Ginkgoopsida
- Czekanowskiales
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Hartzia tenuis
Harris 1935
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Ginkgoopsida
- Caytoniales
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Amphorispermum ellipticum
Harris 1932
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unclassified
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Cycadocarpidium spp.
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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: | Vardekloft | Local bed: | Neocalamites |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | yellow lithified sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
Lithology description: lagoonal facies formed by disused parts of river channels where much finer sediments were deposited | |
Environment: | deltaic indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Lepidopteris zone | ||
Database number: | 23461 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Rees | Enterer: | D. Sunderlin |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | paleobotany |
Created: | 2002-07-15 10:47:33 | Last modified: | 2005-12-13 13:18:37 |
Access level: | group members | Released: | 2002-07-15 10:47:33 |
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] |