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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"Lonchorhynchus oebergi" = Aphaneramma rostratum2
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Osteichthyes | |
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Boreosomus scaber Stensiö 1921 ray-finned fish |