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

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.6° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 8.0° 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 120372: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.11.2011, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
"Lonchorhynchus oebergi" = Aphaneramma rostratum2
"Lonchorhynchus oebergi" = Aphaneramma rostratum2 Woodward 1904 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
"Saurichthys elongatus" = Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus1 Stensiö 1925 ray-finned fish
Saurichthys wimani1 Woodward 1912 ray-finned fish
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Boreosomus scaber Stensiö 1921 ray-finned fish