Reinodden B5: Fassanian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Proarcestes sp. Mojsisovic 1893
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites sp. Mojsisovics 1875
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 77.5° North, 14.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° North, 2.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Ladinian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Fassanian
Age range of interval:242.00000 - 239.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Botneheia
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic lithified siltstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:97315
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-07-22 18:35:18 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-22 18:35:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

33189. 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]