Mt. Congress, lowest Triassic bone-bed (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.6° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Salomon in 1910

• Collected from bone-bed discovered during the excursion of the Geological Congress to Spitzbergen

Primary reference: E. A. Stensiö. 1921. Triassic Fishes from Spitzbergen, Part I 1-307 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120223: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 09.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Boreosomus arcticus Woodward 1912 ray-finned fish
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
"Glaucolepis gyrolepidoides n. sp." = Pteronisculus gyrolepidoides
"Glaucolepis gyrolepidoides n. sp." = Pteronisculus gyrolepidoides Stensiö 1921
 Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria mougeoti Agassiz 1843
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus scaber n. sp. Stensiö 1921 elasmobranch
Salomon coll
 Hybodontiformes -
"Polyacrodus angulatus n. sp." = Lissodus angulatus
"Polyacrodus angulatus n. sp." = Lissodus angulatus Stensiö 1921 elasmobranch