Astarte R. "A": Late/Upper Triassic, Greenland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Peltaspermopsida
- Peltaspermales
- Peltaspermaceae
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Lepidopteris ottonis
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Pteridopsida
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Triletes rexargenteus
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Polypodiopsida
- Gleicheniales
- Dipteridaceae
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Dictyophyllum exile
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Calamitaceae
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Neocalamites hoerensis
Schimper 1908
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Equisetaceae
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Equisetites grosphodon
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Polypodiopsida
- Polypodiaceae
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Clathropteris meniscoides
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Polypodiopsida
- Osmundaceae
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Acrostichites goeppertianus
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unclassified
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Cycadocarpidium spp.
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Ginkgoopsida
- Ginkgoales
- Ginkgoaceae
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Baiera minuta
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Coniferales
- Palissyaceae
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Stachyotaxus elegans
Nathorst 1908
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Bennettitales
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Bysmatospermum macrotrachelum
Harris 1935
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Pterophyllum ptilum
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Vardekloeftia sulcata
Harris 1932
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Anomozamites minor
Nathorst 1878
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Pterophyllum schenki
Zeiller 1886
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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: | 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] |