Cape Stosch, Section F, 120 m (Permian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (74.0° N, 21.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Fish horizon between "Posidonyma shales" and "Brachiopod Limestone"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Danish East Greenland expeditions in 1926-1927,1929

• Chiefly collected in 1929

Primary reference: E. Nielsen. 1932. Permo-Carboniferous fishes from east Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 86(3):1-63 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122142: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Eugeneodontiformes - Caseodontidae
Fadenia crenulata n. gen. n. sp., "Agassizodus groenlandicus n. sp." = Erikodus groenlandicus
Fadenia crenulata n. gen. n. sp. Nielsen 1932 chimaera
"Agassizodus groenlandicus n. sp." = Erikodus groenlandicus Nielsen 1932 chimaera
 Copodontiformes - Copodontidae
? Copodus sp. Morris and Roberts 1862 chimaera
 Petalodontiformes - Janassidae
Janassa kochi n. sp. Nielsen 1932 chimaera
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Palaeoniscidae indet. Vogt 1852
Squamation type A and b