Where: Spitsbergen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.2° N, 17.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 2.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Botneheia Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)
• "between ~95 and ~110m 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 211378: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 15.07.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ussurites sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite | |
Tsvetkovites varius Weitschat and Lehmann 1983 ceratite | |
"Aristoptychites euglyphus" = Arctoptychites euglyphus
"Aristoptychites euglyphus" = Arctoptychites euglyphus Mojsisovics 1886 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
Daonella lindstroemi Mojsisovics 1874 oyster |