and
Middle Triassic marine predators: 2.
FadeniaThe first fossils of
Fadenia were discovered and described in the periodical
Meddelelser om Grønland in 1932 by the Danish vertebrate palaeontologist
Eigil Nielsen after studying the
Upper Permian beds of Cape Stosch, in the fjord of
Godthab Gulf in
King Christian X Land,
East Greenland. Nielsen had joined at the beginning of the
Three-year Expedition to East Greenland led by Danish geologist and explorer
Lauge Koch. The manager of the expedition was the botanist
Gunnar Seidenfaden, after whose surname the genus was named. ==Classification==