Hornsund, Hyrnefjellet Mountain (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (77.0° N, 16.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 11.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Urnetoppen Member (Vardebukta Formation), Dienerian (252.2 - 251.3 Ma)

• Brevassfjellet Myalina Bed, upper part of the Urnetoppen Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, fine-grained, ferruginous conglomerate

• offshore sand bars

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by B. Blazejowski, A. Gazdzicki in 1998, 2005

• All illustrated specimens are deposited in the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa (abbreviated ZPAL P.8)

Primary reference: B. Błażejowski. 2004. Shark Teeth from the Lower Triassic of Spitsbergen and their histology. Polish Polar Research 25(2):153-167 [M. Clapham/C. Feng/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118074: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 05.10.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
Hybodus microdus Stensiö 1921 elasmobranch
Hybodus sasseniensis Stensiö 1921 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus spitzbergensis Hulke 1873 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes -
Lissodus angulatus Stensiö 1921 elasmobranch
Osteichthyes
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurichthys sp. Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish