Fleming Fjord Formation

Fleming Fjord Formation
Stratigraphic range: Upper Triassic, Norian to Rhaetian
Type Geological formation
Unit of Scoresby Land Group
Underlies Kap Stewart Group
Overlies Gipsdalen Formation
Area 3,000 sq km
Thickness 200300 m
Location
Region East Greenland
Type section
Named for Fleming Fjord

The Fleming Fjord Formation is an Upper Triassic geological formation in the northeastern coast of Jameson Land, Greenland.

It is of Norian to Rhaetian age and is subdivided into three members; at the base the Edderfugledal Member, followed by the Malmros Klint Member with the Ørsted Dal Member at the top. It was deposited in a large shallow to ephemeral lake.[1]

Vertebrate fauna

Dinosaurs of the Fleming Fjord Formation[2]
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Genus:

  1. Plateosaurus longiceps

Suborder:

  1. Indeterminate remains.
  2. Tracks.

See also

References

  1. Clemmensen, L.B.; Kent, D.V.; Jenkins, F.A.,Jr. (1998). "A Late Triassic lake system in East Greenland: facies, depositional cycles and palaeoclimate" (PDF). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Elsevier. 140: 135–159. doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(98)00043-1. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  2. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Triassic, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 518–521. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
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