Kap Thordsen, Dickson Land (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.5° N, 15.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sticky Keep Member (Kongressfjellet Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Listed either as the Sticky Keep Formation or the Sticky Keep Member of the Kongressfjellet Formation. Smithian (early Olenekian) age determined on the basis of ammonites. Wiman (1914) suggested that this collection was from the "Fischniveau" ("fish level") of the "Posidonomya Beds" (Wiman 1914; Nilsson 1942)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by P. Öberg in 1872

• NR: Naturhistorika Riksmuseet, Stockholm

Primary reference: C. Wiman. 1910. Ein paar Labyrinthodontenreste aus der Trias Spitzbergens. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 9:34-40 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143892: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 27.04.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
"Daonella frami" = Daonella (Arzelella) frami
"Daonella frami" = Daonella (Arzelella) frami Kittl 1907 oyster
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
"Lonchorhynchus oebergi n. gen. n. sp." = Aphaneramma rostratum
"Lonchorhynchus oebergi n. gen. n. sp." = Aphaneramma rostratum Woodward 1904 tetrapod
NR B.1, mould of partial skull (holotype)