Abstract
Late Permian plant impressions comprising six taxa have been obtained from the North Greenland fold belt. Rhipidopsis, a probable ginkgophyte, occurs together with the fems Prynadaeopteris venusta Radczenko and Pecopteris (Asterotheca?) cf. P. (A?) helenaeana Zalessky, the sphenophyte Sphenophyllum cf. S. biarnicum Zalessky the cordaitean Cordaites cf. C. sylovaensis (Neuburg) Meyen and a possibie conifer branch fragment. The assemblage invites comparison with the Pechora flora of the northem Pre-Urals, and also with that of Mongolia and north-eastern China. These may be warm temperate floras on approximately the same palaeolatitude.
Highlights
During the 1979 and 1980 field seasons, several outcrops of post-metamorphic cover rocks were discovered in the North Greenland fold belt in eastem North Greenland
These increase considerably the known extent of the Wandel Sea Basin succession, Le. the Carboniferous-Palaeogene sediments of eastem North Greenland which post-date the deformation in the North Greenland fold belt and the East Greenland Caledonian fold belt
The new occurrences are in two areas and are both preserved due to post-Palaeozoic tectonic features
Summary
During the 1979 and 1980 field seasons, several outcrops of post-metamorphic cover rocks were discovered in the North Greenland fold belt in eastem North Greenland (fig. 1). 3) occurs with many large sterile frond fragments as well as a few small remains showing poorly preserved sori. Preserved sori (Asterotheca?) fill the spaces between the midvein and the pinnule margin in a few specimens.
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