Middelhook, Daonella beds (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

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

• Paleocoordinates: 57.0° N, 16.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• "Daonella-beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Swedish Expedition in 1908,1909

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1912. Notes on some fish-remains from the Lower Trias of Spitzbergen. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala 11:291-297 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153110: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.12.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae
? Acrolepis spp. Agassiz 1833 ray-finned fish
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch