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 (251.9 - 250.5 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
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Chondrichthyes | |
Polyacrodus claveringensis n. sp.
Polyacrodus claveringensis n. sp. Stensiö 1932 elasmobranch | |
Osteichthyes | |
Australosomus kochi Stensiö 1932 ray-finned fish | |
Bobasatrania gronlandica Stensiö 1932 | |
Birgeria sp., "Birgeria gronlandica" = Birgeria groenlandica
Birgeria sp. Stensiö 1919
"Birgeria gronlandica" = Birgeria groenlandica Stensiö 1932 | |
"Glaucolepis arctica" = Pteronisculus arcticus
"Glaucolepis arctica" = Pteronisculus arcticus Schultze et al. 2021 | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Laugia gronlandica Stensiö 1932 lobe-finned fish | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Otoceras aff. fissisellatum" = Otoceras woodwardi
"Otoceras aff. fissisellatum" = Otoceras woodwardi Griesbach 1880 ceratite | |
"Glyptophiceras pascoei" = Tompophiceras pascoei, "Glyptophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile
"Glyptophiceras pascoei" = Tompophiceras pascoei Spath 1930 ceratite
"Glyptophiceras gracile" = Hypophiceras gracile Spath 1930 ceratite |