Festningen, Cliff exposure: Ladinian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Monophyllites sp.
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites trochleaeformis (Lindstroem 1865)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Halobiidae
Daonella ex gr. denisulcata
Daonella ex gr. degeeri
Daonella cf. subarctica Popov 1946
Daonella indica Bittner 1899
Daonella frami Kittl 1907
Daonella aff. subtenuis Kittl 1912
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.1° North, 13.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° North, 2.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Ladinian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Ladinian
Age range of interval: 242 - 237 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Sassendalen Formation:Bravaisberget Member:Somovbreen-Van Keulenfjorden
Local section:Festningen Local bed:na
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty claystone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: They only list the startigraphical useful fossils
Metadata
Database number:212971
Authorizer:W. Foster Enterer:W. Foster
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-08-23 14:23:41 Last modified:2020-08-23 14:23:41
Access level:the public Released:2020-08-23 14:23:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
73524. T.M. Pchelina. 1965. Stratigraphy and composition of the Mesozoic deposits in central Vestspitsbergen. In V.N. Sokolov (ed.), Geology of Spitsbergen 1:131-154 [W. Foster/W. Foster]