Locality 36, Liljevalchfjellet, Braganzavågen (Cretaceous of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (77.9° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 66.9° N, 14.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Douvilleiceras mammillatum ammonoid zone, Zillerberget Member (Carolinefjellet Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Local Otohoplites fauna, 26 m below the base of the Tertiary.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Paleontological Museum of the University of Oslo

Primary reference: J. Nagy. 1970. Ammonite faunas and stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous (Albian) rocks in southern Spitsbergen. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 152:1-58 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174890: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Otohoplites "sp. C" Steinmann 1925 ammonite