Gruve 7 coal mine, Longyearbyen (Paleocene of Norway)

Where: Svabard, Norway (78.2° N, 15.7° E: paleocoordinates 73.0° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Todalen Member (Firkanten Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by Håvard Dyrkollbotn and Kent Solberg in 2006

Primary reference: C. Lüthje, J. Milàn, and J. H. Hurum. 2010. Paleocene tracks of the mammal Pantodont genus Titanoides in coal-bearing strata, Svalbard, Arctic Norway. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2):521-527 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220227: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 13.05.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Titanoideidae
Thulitheripus svalbardii n. gen. n. sp.
Thulitheripus svalbardii n. gen. n. sp. Lüthje et al. 2010 pantodont
SVB 2058 (trackway)