Astarte R. "A": Late/Upper Triassic, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Peltaspermopsida - Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Lepidopteris ottonis
Pteridopsida
Triletes rexargenteus
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Dipteridaceae
Dictyophyllum exile
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetaceae
Equisetites grosphodon
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Clathropteris meniscoides
Polypodiopsida - Osmundaceae
Acrostichites goeppertianus
unclassified
Cycadocarpidium spp.
Ginkgoopsida - Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Baiera minuta
Coniferales - Palissyaceae
Stachyotaxus elegans Nathorst 1908
Bennettitales
Bysmatospermum macrotrachelum Harris 1935
Pterophyllum ptilum
Vardekloeftia sulcata Harris 1932
Anomozamites minor Nathorst 1878
Pterophyllum schenki Zeiller 1886
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:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
*Period:Late/Upper Triassic - Early/Lower Jurassic
Key time interval:Late/Upper Triassic Zone: Lepidopteris
Age range of interval:237.00000 - 201.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cape Stewart
Local section:Astarte R. Local bed:"A"
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 69 m below the top of plant bearing part of Cape Stewart Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow sandstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: lagoonal facies formed by disused parts of river channels where much finer sediments were deposited
Environment:deltaic indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lepidopteris Zone
Database number:23932
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:D. Sunderlin
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-07-24 07:06:20 Last modified:2005-12-13 13:18:37
Access level:group members Released:2002-07-24 07:06:20
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]