Open AccessUpper Devonian and Upper Permian vertebrates collected in 1987 around Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord, central East Greenland
Author(s) -
Svend Erik Bendix-Almgreen,
Jennifer A. Clack,
Henrik Palmer Olsen
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
rapport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-2944
pISSN - 0418-6559
DOI - 10.34194/rapggu.v140.8045
Subject(s) - devonian , geology , paleontology , permian , fjord , late devonian extinction , vertebrate , oceanography , carboniferous , structural basin , biology , biochemistry , gene
In July and August 1987 a five-man British/Danish vertebrate palaeontological expedition earried out field work on Gauss Halvø and eastern Ymer Ø to collect fossil vertebrates from exposures of the Upper Devonian continental and Upper Permian marine deposits. In the eontext of sampling for vertebrates the Upper Devonian deposits were last visited in 1955 when one af the writers (SEB-A) assisted the late Dr Eigil Nielsen with field work while the Upper Permian marine deposits have not been examined sinee Bendix-Almgreen's fieId work in the Kap Stosch area in the summer of 1967.