Store Kloft, Lot 263, Herlufsholm Strand, Peary Land (Triassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (82.7° N, 23.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 4.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, ferruginous, calcareous sandstone

• Thought to derive from calcareous lens in sandstone with dark, ferruginous nodules

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: B. Kummel. 1953. Middle Triassic ammonites from Peary Land. Meddelelser om Grønland 127(1):1-21 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111477: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.06.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Parapopanoceratidae
"Parapopanoceras cf. tetsa" = Amphipopanoceras tetsa
"Parapopanoceras cf. tetsa" = Amphipopanoceras tetsa McLearn 1946 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
Pearylandites troelseni n. gen. Kummel 1953 ceratite
Groenlandites nielseni n. gen. n. sp. Kummel 1953 ceratite