Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen 1 (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

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

• black limestone

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Ceratites sp. de Haan 1825 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
"Ptychites euglyphus" = Arctoptychites euglyphus
"Ptychites euglyphus" = Arctoptychites euglyphus Mojsisovics 1886 ceratite