Where: Norway (78.0° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 12.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Deltadalen Member (Vikinghøgda Formation), Induan (252.2 - 251.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; bioturbated, glauconitic, gray, green, silty sandstone and mudstone
•Transgressive due to the transgressive sandstone bed, which also indicates rapid establishment of conditions favourable for bentic colonization.
•The repeated occurrences of siltstone and sandstone beds with hummockly lamination indicates a storm influence on a shelf above storm wave base.
•Lower part of the Deltadalen member: sandstone and siltstone interbeds are abundant.
•Calcite concretions are the most abundant in the upper part of the Lusitaniadalen Member but do also occur in the Deltadalen member, but with different carbonate mineralogy.
•The basal sandstone of the Deltadalen member consits of 2-3 meter of medium to fine grained glauconitic grey-green sandstone, that occasionally shows faint cross bedding.
•The sandstone is moderately bioturbated and has a patchly chert cement
•Above the basal sandstone, the Deltadalen Member consits of silty shale with intervals dominated by siltstone or very fine grained sandstone beds.
•Several intervals enriched in sandy siltstone beds occur throughout the member, and several show hummockly lamination, the upper part parts of which are often rippled. Bioturbation is sparse.
•The top of the member consits of thin sandstone beds forming an upward-coarsing upward sequence.
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, concretion
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: A. Mørk, G. Elvebakk, A.W. Forsberg, M.W. Hounslow, H.A. Nakrem, J.O. Vigran, and W. Weitschat. 1999. The type section of the Vikinghøgda Formation: a new Lower Triassic unit in central and eastern Svalbard. Polar Research 18(1):51-82 [C. Looy/W. Puijk/W. Puijk]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31367: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Wilma Puijk on 09.05.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Adontophora sp., Unellium spp., Grebespora concentrica, Proprisporites pocockii, Tympanicysta stoschiana, Pretricolpipollenites spp.
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Bivalvia | |
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Gastropoda | |
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"Bellerophon borealis" = Warthia borealis
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Cephalopoda | |
"Otoceras boreale" = Otoceras woodwardi
"Otoceras boreale" = Otoceras woodwardi Griesbach 1880 ceratite ammonoid, quite large, badly preserved specimens
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Rhynchonellata | |
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Filisphaeridium setasessitante Jansonius 1962 acritarchs
Cymatiosphaera sp. Wetzel 1933 acritarchs
Micrhystridium sp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs | |
Lycopsida | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Densoisporites nejburgii clubmoss | |
Cycadopites | |
Cycadopites nitidus de Jersey 1964 | |
Lueckisporites | |
Vittatina | |
Vittatina spp. Wilson 1962 | |
Lunatisporites | |
Lunatisporites spp. Leschik | |
Maculatasporites | |
Maculatasporites spp. Tiwari 1964 | |
Crustaesporites | |