Tschermakfjellet (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Also known as Ichthyosaur locality

Where: Spitsbergen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.5° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.4° N, 2.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Botneheia Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty shale

• Escarpment shales; matrix is a dark grey, slightly silty, finely laminated, bituminous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by M. W. Maisch and J. R. Lenk, Norsk Polarinstitut in 2006

Primary reference: M. W. Maisch and D. Blomeier. 2009. Filling the gap - an ichthyosaur (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic Botneheia Formation of Svalbard. Neues Jarbuch fur geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlung 254(3):379-384 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144462: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 08.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Toretocnemidae
? Toretocnemidae indet.
? Toretocnemidae indet. Maisch and Matzke 2000 ichthyosaur
GPIT SVP 2006/001-002, partial skeletons, possibly part and counterpart of same specimen