Seep 15, Knorringfjellet: Berriasian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma octavia (Orbigny 1850)
Hryniewicz et al. 2014 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia spp. Rouillier 1845
Hryniewicz et al. 2014 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Nucinellidae
Nucinella svalbardensis Hryniewicz et al. 2014
Hryniewicz et al. 2014 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Mesosaccella rogovi Hryniewicz et al. 2014
Hryniewicz et al. 2014 3 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingularia ? similis Biemat and Emig 1993
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.3° North, 16.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:69.6° North, 16.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Berriasian
Age range of interval: 145 - 139.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Late Ryazanian" (all Ryazanian seeps are Berriasian in age according to authors)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "carbonate"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: seep carbonate
Environment:offshore shelf
Geology comments: middle to outer shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Paleontological Collection of the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Metadata
Database number:163974
Authorizer:M. Clapham, W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Manojlovic, M. Krause
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-11-21 13:53:05 Last modified:2014-11-21 23:34:37
Access level:the public Released:2014-11-21 13:53:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
53519. M. R. Sandy, K. Hryniewicz, O. Hammer, H. A. Nakrem, and C. T. S. Little. 2014. Brachiopods from the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep deposits, central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Zootaxa 3884(6):501-532 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]

Secondary references:

54596 K. Hryniewicz, C. T. Little, and H. A. Nakrem. 2014. Bivalves from the latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep carbonates from central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Zootaxa 3859(1):1-66 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]