ME section, Milne Edwardsfjellet (Middle Anisian) (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Spitsbergen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.2° N, 17.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 6.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Botneheia Formation, Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• "between ~40 and ~80m above the base" (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 211376: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 15.07.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Palaeophyllitidae
Leiophyllites sp. Diener 1915 ammonite
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Hollandites sp. Diener 1907 ceratite
Anagymnotoceras varium McLearn 1948 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
"Stannakhites hayesi" = Tetsaoceras hayesi
"Stannakhites hayesi" = Tetsaoceras hayesi McLearn 1948 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Parapopanoceratidae
Amphipopanoceras cf. medium McLearn 1948 ceratite