The Buch Bjerg "Track-site" at the Fleming Fjord Formation
Type
Geological formation
Unit of
Scoresby Land Group
Sub-units
Edderfugledal, Malmros Klint & Ørsted Dal Members
Underlies
Kap Stewart Group
Overlies
Gippsdalen Formation
Area
3,000 km2 (1,200 sq mi)
Thickness
200–300 m (660–980 ft)
Lithology
Primary
Mudstone, claystone
Other
Limestone, sandstone
Location
Coordinates
71°54′N22°34′W / 71.9°N 22.56°W / 71.9; -22.56
Approximate paleocoordinates
45°42′N2°48′W / 45.7°N 2.8°W / 45.7; -2.8
Region
East Greenland
Country
Greenland
Extent
Jameson Land
Type section
Named for
Fleming Fjord
Fleming Fjord Formation (Greenland)
The Fleming Fjord Formation, alternatively called the Fleming Fjord Group is an Upper Triassic geological formation in the northeastern coast of Jameson Land, Greenland. It consists of terrestrial sediments and is known for its fossil content.
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The FlemingFjordFormation, alternatively called the FlemingFjord Group is an Upper Triassic geological formation in the northeastern coast of Jameson...
FlemingFjord is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively it lies in the Sermersooq Municipality. This fjord was named "Fleming...
subsequently questioned. Sauropod-like sauropodomorph tracks from the FlemingFjordFormation (Greenland) might, however, indicate the occurrence of the group...
Triassic age. Two formations are predominant in Jameson Land: the Triassic FlemingFjordFormation and the Jurassic Kap Stewart Formation. Triassic fossils...
Carolina. Aetosaurus and Paratypothorax have been recovered from the FlemingFjordFormation of Jameson Land, on the east coast of Greenland. These two genera...
in the Chinle Group of the southwestern United States, and the FlemingFjordFormation of Greenland. Specimens of Aetosaurus occur in Norian-age strata...
Creek Formation (Lower Triassic), Pingo Dal Formation (?Lower Triassic), Gipsdalen Formation (Middle to Upper Triassic) and the FlemingFjordFormation (Upper...
Clemmensen, Lars (2017). "Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from the FlemingFjordFormation of East Greenland: evidence for Late Triassic sauropods". Acta...
plateosaurid dinosaur described in 2021 from the Late Triassic FlemingFjordFormation of Greenland. It contains one species, Issi saaneq; the full binomial...
mammaliaform. It contains a single species, H. clemmenseni from the FlemingFjordFormation of Greenland, and has been assigned to the monogeneric family Haramiyaviidae...
Stuttgart Formation of Bielefeld, the northernmost record in Germany. In 2017, Cyclotosaurus naraserluki, a new endemic species from the FlemingFjord Fm.,...
early mammals, found in the expeditions of Farish Jenkins. The FlemingFjordFormation yielded a number of theropod and sauropod tracks, temnospondyls...
the White Water Member of the Blomidon Formation. Along with unnamed fossils from the FlemingFjordFormation of Greenland, these remains represent the...
Lars B. (1 January 2016). "The vertebrate-bearing Late Triassic FlemingFjordFormation of central East Greenland revisited: stratigraphy, palaeoclimate...
Warren, A. (2008): Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic FlemingFjordFormation of East Greenland and a reassessment of head lifting in temnospondyl...
A. (2008). "Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic FlemingFjordFormation of East Greenland and a reassessment of head lifting in temnospondyl...
of Paratypothorax have also been reported from the Norian-age FlemingFjordFormation in Greenland, the Zarzaitine Series of Algeria, and an unverified...
Mitredon is an extinct genus of cynodonts which existed in the FlemingFjordFormation of Greenland during the Rhaetian age of the Late Triassic epoch...
unidentified (possibly theropod) footprints in the Middle-Late Triassic Pekin Formation of North Carolina. However, the most reliable early record of North American...
are of the genus Gerrothorax, which have been recovered from the FlemingFjordFormation of Jameson Land, East Greenland, and from many localities in southern...
Warren (2008). "Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic FlemingFjordFormation of East Greenland and a reassessment of head lifting in temnospondyl...
MGUH VP 3393, was found in the Carlsberg Fjord Beds of the Ørsted Dal Member of the FlemingFjordFormation dating from the Norian – Rhaetian. It consists...
Cape Stewart Formation at Fossilworks.org FlemingFjordFormation at Fossilworks.org Isrand Formation at Fossilworks.org Wordie Creek Formation at Fossilworks...
Wings, Oliver (2015-12-16). "The vertebrate-bearing Late Triassic FlemingFjordFormation of central East Greenland revisited: stratigraphy, palaeoclimate...
northern end of FlemingFjord. In the east, near the settlement of Ittoqqortoormiit, the municipal shores straddle the Kangertittivaq fjord, which opens...
metriorhynchid tooth is described from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Hybla Formation (Sicily, Italy) by Chiarenza et al. (2015), extending the known geological...
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