Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.3° N, 18.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 9.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-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 120298: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 10.11.2011, edited by Richard Butler and Bethany Allen

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