Rotundafjellet B1827-32: Spathian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
Koptoceras sp. Spath 1951
synonym of Lenotropites
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Gymnotoceras sp. Hyatt 1877
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.5° North, 15.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° North, 8.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Early Triassic
Stage: Olenekian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 1
Key time interval: Spathian
Age range of interval: 248.9 - 247.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Sassendalen Formation:Vikinghogda Member:Vendomdalen
Local section:Rotundafjellet Local bed:NA
Stratigraphy comments: Formally Sticky Keep Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Lithology description: shale with ironstone concretions
Environment:offshore ramp
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,shellbed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:212116
Authorizer:W. Foster Enterer:W. Foster
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-08-04 13:00:09 Last modified:2020-08-04 08:00:09
Access level:the public Released:2020-08-04 13:00:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

73264. S.H. Buchan, A. Challinor, and W.B. J.R. Harland Parker. 1965. The Triassic stratigraphy of Svalbard. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 135:1-98 [W. Foster/W. Foster]