Botneheia (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.3° N, 16.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 2.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Botneheia Formation (Sassendalen Group), Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: A.A. Dagis and M.V. Korchinskaya. 1989. Triassic conodonts of Svalbard. Triasovye konodonty Sval'barda 732:110-121 [W. Foster/W. Foster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212300: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 09.08.2020

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
 Phylloceratida - Ussuritidae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
"Neogondolella transita" = Gondolella transita Kozur and Mostler 1971 conodont
Neogondolella longa Budurov and Stefanov 1973 conodont
Neogondolella spitzbergensis Dagis and Korchinskaya 1989 conodont