Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.2° N, 17.2° 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 120231: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 09.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham, Richard Butler and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
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"Prosphingites spathi" = Juvenites spathi1
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Osteichthyes | |
Saurichthys wimani2, Saurichthys hamiltoni2, "Saurichthys elongatus" = Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus2, "Saurichthys ornatus" = Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) ornatus2
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Boreosomus reuterskioldi Stensiö 1921 ray-finned fish
Acrorhabdus bertili Stensiö 1921 ray-finned fish | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
? Wimania sp. Stensio 1921 coelacanth
Wimania multistriata Stensiö 1921 coelacanth
Axelia robusta Stensiö 1921 coelacanth | |
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Sassenia tuberculata Stensiö 1921 lobe-finned fish | |
Amphibia | |
"Lonchorhynchus oebergi" = Aphaneramma rostratum3
"Lonchorhynchus oebergi" = Aphaneramma rostratum3 Woodward 1904 tetrapod PIU specimens including PIU U.65
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"Lyrocephalus euri" = Lyrocephaliscus euri3
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Osteichthyes | |
Platysomus sp. Agassiz 1833
Platysomus nathorsti Stensiö 1921 | |
Pygopterus degeeri Stensiö 1921 | |
Birgeria mougeoti Agassiz 1843 |