Lepidopteris R.: Late/Upper Triassic, Greenland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Clathropteris meniscoides
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Neocalamites hoerensis Schimper 1908
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetaceae
Equisetites muensteri Sternberg 1833
recombined as Equisetum muensteri
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Dipteridaceae
Dictyophyllum exile
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiales - Dryopteridaceae
Ctenis nilssoni
Bennettitales
Pterophyllum ptilum
Pterophyllum pinnatifidum
Anomozamites minor Nathorst 1878
Pterophyllum schenki Zeiller 1886
Coniferales - Palissyaceae
Stachyotaxus elegans Nathorst 1908
Peltaspermopsida - Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Lepidopteris ottonis
unclassified
Ontheodendron sternbergi
Doratophyllum astartensis Harris 1932
Ginkgoopsida - Ginkgoales - Ginkgoaceae
Baiera minuta
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
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:Lepidopteris R.
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 65 m below 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
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lepidopteris Zone
Database number:23934
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:D. Sunderlin
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-07-24 07:15:35 Last modified:2005-12-13 13:18:37
Access level:group members Released:2002-07-24 07:15:35
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]