Agardhbukta, Myklegardfjellet SW, 160m: Oxfordian - Tithonian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia spp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.1° North, 18.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:69.4° North, 16.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Oxfordian - Tithonian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Janusfjellet Member:Agardhfjellet
Local section:Myklegardfjellet Local bed:NA
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: ironstone
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:212489
Authorizer:W. Foster Enterer:W. Foster
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-08-15 13:07:02 Last modified:2020-08-15 08:07:02
Access level:the public Released:2020-08-15 13:07:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

73410. K. Birkenmajer. 1980. Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous succession at Agardhbukta, East Spitsbergen. Studia Geologica Polonica LXVI:35-53 [W. Foster/W. Foster]