Draschedalen, Dickson Land: Fassanian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
collected by C. Samtleben, W. Weitschat 1981
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Ceratitida
- Nathorstitidae
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Indigirites tozeri
Weitschat and Lehmann 1983
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4 specimens | |||||||||
(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Cephalopoda
- Ceratitida
- Ptychitidae
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Aristoptychites kolymensis
(Kiparisova 1937)
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200 specimens | |||||||||
(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Cephalopoda
- Phylloceratida
- Discophyllitidae
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Ussurites spetsbergensis
(Oeberg 1877)
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10 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Indigirophyllites spetsbergensis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Svalbard and Jan Mayen |
Coordinates: | 78.6° North, 15.3° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 42.6° North, 1.7° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
Stage: | Ladinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
Key time interval: | Fassanian | Ammonoid zone: | Indigirites tozeri |
Age range of interval: | 242.00000 - 239.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Botneheia | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Upper nodule layer; Daonella shales |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination,concretionary,gray lithified carbonaceous "shale" |
Lithology description: Dark-grey weathering blue-black, in places it is intensely bituminous; it weathers into paperlike lamellae. The nodules consist of black, splintery, bituminous limestone weathering light-grey. | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,concretion |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | C. Samtleben, W. Weitschat | Collection dates: | 1981 |
Collection method comments: Repository: Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Hamburg (SGPIHM) |
Metadata
Database number: | 144479 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2013-05-08 12:13:24 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-05-08 12:13:24 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
46715. | W. Weitschat and U. Lehmann. 1983. Stratigraphy and ammonoids from the Middle Triassic Botneheia Formation (Daonella shales) of Spitsbergen. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 54:27-54 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |