Where: Spitsbergen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.2° N, 17.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 9.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Anawasatchites tardus ammonoid zone, Lusitaniadalen Member (Vikinghøgda Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• "uppermost beds" (Hounslow et al. 2008)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. W. Hounslow, M. Hu, A. Mørk, W. Weitschat, J. Os Vigran, V. Karloukovski, and M. J. Orchard. 2008. Intercalibration of Boreal and Tethyan time scales: the magnetobiostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic and the latest Early Triassic from Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway. Polar Research 27(3):469-490 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 211370: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 15.07.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
"Neospathodus waageni" = Novispathodus waageni
"Neospathodus waageni" = Novispathodus waageni Sweet 1970 conodont | |
Cephalopoda | |
Xenoceltites subevolutus Spath 1930 ceratite | |
Anasibirites sp. Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite
Arctoprionites nodosus Frebold 1930 ceratite
"Anawasatchites sp." = Wasatchites Mathews 1929 ceratite | |
Pseudosageceras sp. Diener 1895 ceratite
Tellerites furcatus Öberg 1877 ceratite |