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Fleming Fjord Formation
Stratigraphic range: Norian–Rhaetian
Tracks of large sauropod of the Fleming Fjord Formation
TypeGeological formation
Unit ofScoresby Land Group
Sub-unitsEdderfugledal Member, Malmros Klint Member, Ørsted Dal Member
UnderliesKap Stewart Group
OverliesGipsdalen Formation
Area3,000 sq km
Thickness200–300 m
Location
RegionEast Greenland
Country Greenland
ExtentJameson Land
Type section
Named forFleming 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

The fauna of Fleming Fjord includes:[2]

Dinosaurs of the Fleming Fjord Formation[7] auria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 518–521. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.</ref>
Taxa Presence Notes Images

Genus:

  1. Plateosaurus longiceps
Plateosaurus

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. 140. Elsevier: 135–159. doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(98)00043-1. Retrieved 2 December 2012.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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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