Where: Greenland (73.9° N, 21.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 12.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Wordie Creek Formation, Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• Allegedlly from the same bed as other locality SSW of Cape Stosch
Environment/lithology: micaceous, green claystone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. F. Spath. 1930. The Eotriassic invertebrate fauna of East Greenland. Meddeleser om Grønland 83(1):1-90 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48114: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 14.03.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Platysomus sp. Agassiz 1833 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ophiceras commune, "Ophiceras aff. evolutum" = Lytophiceras chamunda evoluta, Ophiceras subsakuntala, Discophiceras wordiei
Ophiceras commune Spath 1930 ceratite
"Ophiceras aff. evolutum" = Lytophiceras chamunda evoluta Frech 1902 ceratite
Ophiceras subsakuntala Spath 1935 ceratite
Discophiceras wordiei Spath 1930 ceratite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Bellerophon cf. vaceki" = Warthia vaceki
"Bellerophon cf. vaceki" = Warthia vaceki Bittner 1899 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Promyalina groenlandica Newell 1955 clam | |
Claraia stachei Bittner 1901 scallop | |
"Gervilleia aff. exporrecta" = Bakevellia exporrecta
"Gervilleia aff. exporrecta" = Bakevellia exporrecta Lepsius 1878 oyster |