ME section, Milne Edwardsfjellet (Late Anisian): Illyrian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Halobiidae
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Daonella lindstroemi
Mojsisovics 1874
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Cephalopoda
- Ceratitida
- Ceratitidae
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Frechites laqueatus
(Lindstroem 1865)
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Parafrechites migayi
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Cephalopoda
- Ceratitida
- Ptychitidae
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Aristoptychites trochleaeformis
(Lindstroem 1865)
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Cephalopoda
- Ceratitida
- Parapopanoceratidae
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Parapopanoceras malmgreni
(Lindstroem 1865)
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Conodonta
- Ozarkodinida
- Gondolellidae
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Neogondolella cf. aldae
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Geography
| Country: | Svalbard and Jan Mayen | State/province: | Spitsbergen |
| Coordinates: | 78.2° North, 17.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.7° North, 6.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Anisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Illyrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 243.8 - 242 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Botneheia | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "between ~80 and ~95m above the base" (Hounslow et al. 2008) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 211377 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Dunhill | Enterer: | B. Allen |
| Created: | 2020-07-15 11:36:51 | Last modified: | 2020-07-15 06:36:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-07-15 11:36:51 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 73034. | M. W. Hounslow, M. Hu, A. Mørk, W. Weitschat, J. Os Vigran, V. Karloukovski, and M. J. Orchard. 2008. Intercalibration of Boreal and Tethyan time scales: the magnetobiostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic and the latest Early Triassic from Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway. Polar Research 27(3):469-490 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |