Festningen, Cliff exposure: Oxfordian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucella bronni
Aucella latta
Aucella ex gr. mosquensis White 1885
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Cardioceratidae indet. Siemiradzki 1891
Cardioceras ex gr. delicatum
Prionodoceras sp. Buckman 1920
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
Amoeboceras ? sp. Hyatt 1900
Amoeboceras cf. nathorsti
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.1° North, 13.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:69.2° North, 13.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 161.5 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Adventdalen Formation:Agardfjellet Member:Lardyfjellet
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:212975
Authorizer:W. Foster Enterer:W. Foster
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-08-23 14:33:45 Last modified:2020-08-23 14:33:45
Access level:the public Released:2020-08-23 14:33:45
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]