MES section, Milne Edwardsfjellet (K. subrobustus zone) (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

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: Keyserlingites subrobustus ammonoid zone, Vendomdalen Member (Vikinghøgda Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• "26m above the base upwards" (Hounslow et al. 2008)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

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 211374: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 15.07.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Neogondolellinae indet. Hirsch 1994 conodont
? Columbitella sp. Orchard 2005 conodont
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Keyserlingitidae
Keyserlingites sp. Hyatt 1900 ceratite
Keyserlingites subrobustus Mojsisovics 1886 ceratite
Monacanthites monoceros Tozer 1965 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Olenikitidae
Svalbardiceras spitzbergensis Frebold 1929 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Pseudosageceras sp. Diener 1895 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Procarnitidae
Procarnites cf. modestus Tozer 1965 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Arctomeekoceras sp. Popov 1962 ceratite
 Phylloceratida - Ussuritidae
Popovites occidentalis Tozer 1965 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
"Posidonia aranea" = Ellesmerella aranea
"Posidonia aranea" = Ellesmerella aranea Tozer 1961 oyster