Festningen, Cliff exposure (Cretaceous of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.1° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 66.8° N, 10.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Carolinefjellet Formation (Adventdalen Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: bulk,

• They only list the startigraphical useful fossils

Primary reference: T.M. Pchelina. 1965. Stratigraphy and composition of the Mesozoic deposits in central Vestspitsbergen. In V.N. Sokolov (ed.), Geology of Spitsbergen 1:131-154 [W. Foster/W. Foster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212981: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 23.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Sanmartinoceras sp. Bonarelli 1921 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
Arcthoplites jachromensis Nikitin 1888 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula pectinata Sowerby 1818 nut clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus ex gr. anglicus" = Gnesioceramus anglicus
"Inoceramus ex gr. anglicus" = Gnesioceramus anglicus Woods 1911 clam
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae