Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.5° N, 15.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 1.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tsvetkovites varius ammonoid zone, Botneheia Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)
• Middle 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 144475: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.05.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Ussurites spetsbergensis" = Indigirophyllites spetsbergensis
"Ussurites spetsbergensis" = Indigirophyllites spetsbergensis Oeberg 1877 ammonite | |
"Aristoptychites euglyphus" = Arctoptychites euglyphus
"Aristoptychites euglyphus" = Arctoptychites euglyphus Mojsisovics 1886 ceratite | |
Tsvetkovites varius n. sp.
Tsvetkovites varius n. sp. Weitschat and Lehmann 1983 ceratite |