Sticky Keep (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.3° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sticky Keep Member (Kongressfjellet Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• From the "Fischniveau" (fish horizon) of the "Posidonomya Beds" (Wiman 1914; Nilsson 1942)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: PIU: Palaeontological Institute of the University of Uppsala

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 120230: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 09.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham and Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Whiteiidae
Wimania multistriata Stensiö 1921 coelacanth
 Diplocercidiformes - Sassenidae
Sassenia tuberculata n. sp. Stensiö 1921 lobe-finned fish
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
 Temnospondyli - Lyrocephaliscidae
"Lyrocephalus euri" = Lyrocephaliscus euri3
"Lyrocephalus euri" = Lyrocephaliscus euri3 Wiman 1914 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
"Lonchorhynchus oebergi" = Aphaneramma rostratum3, "Lonchorhynchus sp." = Aphaneramma3, Tertrema acuta n. gen. n. sp.3
"Lonchorhynchus oebergi" = Aphaneramma rostratum3 Woodward 1904 tetrapod
PIU U.10, mandible
"Lonchorhynchus sp." = Aphaneramma3 Woodward 1904 tetrapod
Tertrema acuta n. gen. n. sp.3 Wiman 1914 tetrapod
PIU U.17, partial skull
 Temnospondyli -
Boreosaurus thorslundi1 Nilsson 1943 tetrapod
PIU U.61
Actinopteri
 Perleidiformes - Perleididae
"Perleidus woodwardi" = Teffichthys woodwardi
"Perleidus woodwardi" = Teffichthys woodwardi Stensiö 1921
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria mougeoti Agassiz 1843
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus nathorsti n. sp. Stensiö 1921
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurichthys sp.2 Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish