Mt. Congress, fish horizon (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.6° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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 120366: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.11.2011, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Boreosaurus thorslundi1 Nilsson 1943 tetrapod
ENS 337, mandibular fragment
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
"cf. Sassenisaurus spitzbergensis" = Cyclotosaurus spitzbergensis1
"cf. Sassenisaurus spitzbergensis" = Cyclotosaurus spitzbergensis1 Wiman 1914 tetrapod
ENS 350, 351, unnumbered
 Temnospondyli -
"Peltostega wimani" = Peltostega erici2
"Peltostega wimani" = Peltostega erici2 Wiman 1916 tetrapod
PIU U.121
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
Aphaneramma rostratum1 Woodward 1904 tetrapod
PIU U. 52, 53, 54, 77
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Whiteiidae
Wimania sinuosa Stensiö 1921 coelacanth
Wimania multistriata Stensiö 1921 coelacanth
Axelia elegans n. sp. Stensiö 1921 coelacanth
Axelia robusta Stensiö 1921 coelacanth
 Coelacanthiformes - Coelacanthidae
Mylacanthus spinosus Stensiö 1921 coelacanth
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Scleracanthus asper Stensiö 1921 lobe-finned fish
Osteichthyes
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Boreosomus reuterskioldi Stensiö 1921 ray-finned fish
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurichthys wimani3 Woodward 1912 ray-finned fish
"Saurichthys ornatus" = Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) ornatus3 Stensiö 1925 ray-finned fish
"Saurichthys elongatus" = Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus3 Stensiö 1925 ray-finned fish
 Palaeonisciformes - Pygopteridae
Pygopterus degeeri Stensiö 1921
Actinopteri
 Perleidiformes - Perleididae
"Perleidus woodwardi" = Teffichthys woodwardi
"Perleidus woodwardi" = Teffichthys woodwardi Stensiö 1921