A Late Permian flora of Pechora affinity in North Greenland

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.