Fleming Fjord Formation
The Fleming Fjord Formation is an Upper Triassic geological formation in the northeastern coast of Jameson Land, Greenland.
| Fleming Fjord Formation Stratigraphic range: Norian–Rhaetian | |
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 Tracks of large sauropod of the Fleming Fjord Formation | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Scoresby Land Group |
| Sub-units | Edderfugledal Member, Malmros Klint Member, Ørsted Dal Member |
| Underlies | Kap Stewart Group |
| Overlies | Gipsdalen Formation |
| Area | 3,000 sq km |
| Thickness | 200–300 m |
| Location | |
| Region | East Greenland |
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| Extent | Jameson Land |
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| Named for | Fleming Fjord |
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
The fauna of Fleming Fjord includes:[2]
- Phytosauria indet.
- Cyclotosaurus naraserluki[3]
- Plateosauridae indet.
- Sauropoda (tracks)[4]
- Theropoda (tracks)
- Gerrothorax
- Mammals
- "Lepidotes" fish
- Sharks [5]
- Brachychirotherium [6]
- Proganochelys
| Dinosaurs of the Fleming Fjord Formation[7] auria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 518–521. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.</ref> | ||||
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See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
References
- 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.
- Clemmensen, L. B., Milàn J., Adolfssen J. S., Estrup E. J., Frobøse N., Klein N., Mateus O., & Wings O. (2016). The vertebrate-bearing Late Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of central East Greenland revisited: stratigraphy, palaeoclimate and new palaeontological data. Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 434(1), 31-47.
- Marzola, M., Mateus O., Shubin N. H., & Clemmensen L. B. (2017). Cyclotosaurus naraserluki, sp. nov., a new Late Triassic cyclotosaurid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Fleming Fjord Formation of the Jameson Land Basin (East Greenland). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e1303501., 2017
- Lallensack, JN, Klein H, Milàn J, Wings O, Mateus O, Clemmensen LB. 2017. Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from the Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland: Evidence for Late Triassic sauropods. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 62(4):833-843.
- Hansen, B. B., Milàn J., Clemmensen L. B., Adolfssen J. S., Estrup E. J., Klein N., Mateus O., & Wings O. (2016). Coprolites from the Late Triassic Kap Stewart Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland: morphology, classification and prey inclusions. Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 434(1), 49-69.
- Klein, H., Milàn J., Clemmensen L. B., Frobøse N., Mateus O., Klein N., Adolfssen J. S., Estrup E. J., & Wings O. (2016). Archosaur footprints (cf. Brachychirotherium) with unusual morphology from the Upper Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation (Norian–Rhaetian) of East Greenland. Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 434(1), 71-85.
- Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Triassic, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinos
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