Seep 2, Janusfjellet (Cretaceous of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.3° N, 15.8° E: paleocoordinates 69.6° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Agardhfjellet Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• Callovian-Ryazanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified carbonate

• middle to outer shelf
• seep carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Paleontological Collection of the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo

Primary reference: K. Hryniewicz, C. T. Little, and H. A. Nakrem. 2014. Bivalves from the latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep carbonates from central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Zootaxa 3859(1):1-66 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167346: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella rogovi
Mesosaccella rogovi Hryniewicz et al. 2014 pointed nut clam
 Solemyida - Nucinellidae
Nucinella svalbardensis
Nucinella svalbardensis Hryniewicz et al. 2014 Nut Clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia spp.
Buchia spp. Rouillier 1845 scallop
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Pseudotrapezium aff. groenlandicum