Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.5° N, 15.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 5.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Botneheia Formation (Sassendalen Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• "Daonella limestone" at Capp Thorsden. Stratigraphy revised by Buchan et al. (1965)
Environment/lithology: offshore; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk
Primary reference: E. Mojsisovics. 1886. Arktische Triasfaunen. Beiträge zur palaeontologischen Charakteristik der arktisch-pacifischen Triasprovinz . Memoires de L'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg, VII Serie XXXIII(6):1-206 [W. Foster/W. Foster]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 212548: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 16.08.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ceratites sp. de Haan 1825 ceratite | |
"Ptychites euglyphus" = Arctoptychites euglyphus
"Ptychites euglyphus" = Arctoptychites euglyphus Mojsisovics 1886 ceratite |