Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.5° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 5.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Frechites laqueatus ammonoid zone, Botneheia Formation, Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Lower nodule layer; Daonella shales
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, gray, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by C. Samtleben, W. Weitschat in 1981
• Repository: Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Hamburg (SGPIHM)
Primary reference: W. Weitschat and U. Lehmann. 1983. Stratigraphy and ammonoids from the Middle Triassic Botneheia Formation (Daonella shales) of Spitsbergen. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 54:27-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144473: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Aristoptychites trochleaeformis" = Ptychites trochleaeformis
"Aristoptychites trochleaeformis" = Ptychites trochleaeformis Lindstroem 1865 ceratite | |
Frechites laqueatus Lindstroem 1865 ceratite | |
Parapopanoceras malmgreni Lindstroem 1865 ceratite |