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 | |
? Acrolepis spp. Agassiz 1833 ray-finned fish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch |