south of base camp II (Triassic of Greenland)

Also known as Jameson Land, area II

Where: Greenland (71.3° N, 22.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.8° N, 2.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ørsted Dal Member (Fleming Fjord Formation), Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• upper part of member, from the informal Tait Bjerg Beds; middle Norian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; intraclastic mudstone and dolomitic, gray, yellow limestone

• "The beds are composed of cyclically bedded, dark, clastic mudstones and lightgrey or yellowish, impure limestones or dolomitic limestones and clastic sandstones."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1988

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: F. A. Jenkins, N. H. Shubin, W. W. Amaral, S. M. Gatesy, C. R. Schaff, L. B. Clemmensen, W. R. Downs, A. R. Davidson, N. Bonde and F. Osbaeck. 1994. Late Triassic continental vertebrates and depositional environments of the Fleming Fjord Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland, Geoscience 32:1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26997: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
cf. Proganochelys sp. Baur 1887 turtle
MCZ field no. 22/88G, partial plastron and carapace, limb bones
 Loricata - Rauisuchidae
? Rauisuchidae indet. rauisuchid
Jaw, partial limb bones, ribs and vertebrae