Seep 4, Wimanfjellet: Tithonian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia spp. Rouillier 1845
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes spp. Meek 1864
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.3° North, 15.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:69.5° North, 15.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Tithonian
Age range of interval: 149.2 - 145 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Volgian"
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:167347
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-03-12 04:41:00 Last modified:2015-03-12 04:41:00
Access level:authorizer only Released:2015-06-12 04:41:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]