A new vertebrate fossil-bearing layer in the Rhætelv Formation (Kap Stewart Group) of central East Greenland: evidence of a Hettangian marine incursion into the continental Jameson Land Basin

• Main Authors: Clemmensen, Lars, Lindström, Sofie, Mateus, Octávio, Mau, Malte, Milan, Jesper, Kent, Dennis V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Paleogeography; Palynology; Geology; Stratigraphic; Vertebrates; Fossil; Greenland; Kap; Jameson Land; Fleming Fjord; Kap Stewart; East Greenland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-87pc-9e07

The Kap Stewart Group (Rhaetian-Sinemurian, Triassic–Early Jurassic) of the Jameson Land Basin in central East Greenland has traditionally been regarded as a strictly continental unit with delta and perennial lake sediments. New finds of plesiosaur bone remain in a thin storm deposited sandstone bed...