Reinodden B5 (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (77.5° N, 14.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 2.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Botneheia Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, phosphatic siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Ishibashi and K. Nakazawa. 1989. Triassic ammonites from west Spitsbergen. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 26:215-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97315: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites sp. Mojsisovics 1875 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Proarcestes sp. Mojsisovic 1893 ceratite