Hird's Fox Farm on Clavering Island (Triassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (74.3° N, 21.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 12.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Wordie Creek Formation, Griesbachian (252.2 - 251.3 Ma)

• Based on ammonoids these are Lower Griesbachian rocks

Environment/lithology: limestone and concretionary claystone

• thin. Ophiceras limestone followed by a series of brown unctuous clays, 25m in thickness, with red concretions...These concretions with blue centres, wee unweatherd, and banded and calcareous

Size class: macrofossils

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 48123: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 14.03.2005, edited by Phillip Elliott

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Otoceratidae
"Otoceras aff. fissisellatum" = Otoceras woodwardi
"Otoceras aff. fissisellatum" = Otoceras woodwardi Griesbach 1880 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
"Glyptophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile, "Glyptophiceras pascoei" = Tompophiceras pascoei
"Glyptophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile Spath 1930 ceratite
"Glyptophiceras pascoei" = Tompophiceras pascoei Spath 1930 ceratite
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Polyacrodus claveringensis n. sp. Stensiö 1932 elasmobranch
Osteichthyes
 Pholidopleuriformes - Pholidopleuridae
Australosomus kochi Stensiö 1932 ray-finned fish
Coelacanthimorpha
  - Laugiidae
Laugia gronlandica Stensiö 1932 lobe-finned fish
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Bobasatraniidae
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
"Glaucolepis arctica" = Pteronisculus arcticus
"Glaucolepis arctica" = Pteronisculus arcticus Schultze et al. 2021
 Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria sp., "Birgeria gronlandica" = Birgeria groenlandica
Birgeria sp. Stensiö 1919
"Birgeria gronlandica" = Birgeria groenlandica Stensiö 1932