Notes on the First Find of Upper Devonian Stegocephalian Fossils in East Greenland in 1929

Abstract

Abstract During the Danish East Greenland expedition in 1929 the author inter alia collected Upper Devonian vertebrate remains in several localities. The bulk of the material was obtained at the northern slope of Mount Celsius on Ymeron. Among the vertebrate fossils collected there was a relatively well preserved somewhat reptilian looking skull with acuminated teeth. The author designed it to be very likely the skull of a primitive stegocephalian. After the return of the expedition to Copenhagen the expdition leader Lauge Koch reported inter alia on the discovery of the Devonian “toad”. In 1931 E. Stensio published a monograph of the Upper Devonian fish fossils collected during the expedition. The same year G. Save—Soderbergh accompanied by three fossil hunters took part in a Danish expedition to East Greenland. During the greater part of the field season they looked for stegophalian skulls on the northern slope of the above-named Mount Celsius. In 1932 Save—Soderbergh published a report on the most inte...