Blue River, East Greenland, top of the section (Triassic of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (73.8° N, 21.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 12.5° E)

When: Kap Stosch Formation (Wordie Creek Group), Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; siltstone and sandstone

• The section is mainly composed of dark grey and greenish siltstones with intercalations of sandstone beds deposited in various paleoenvironments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Zatoń, G. Niedźwiedzki, M. Rakociński, H. Blom, and B. P. Kear. 2018. Earliest Triassic metazoan bioconstructions in East Greenland reveal a pioneering benthic community from immediately after the end-Permian mass extinction. Global and Planetary Change [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196948: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.10.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Tentaculita
 Microconchida -
Microconchida indet.
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
Metophiceras sp.
Metophiceras sp. Spath 1935 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ophiceratidae
Ophiceras sp.
Ophiceras sp. Griesbach 1880 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Otoceratidae
"Otoceras boreale" = Otoceras woodwardi
"Otoceras boreale" = Otoceras woodwardi Griesbach 1880 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Bukkenites rosenkrantzi
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail