Bjornskardet, 98 m above base, Spitsbergen: Smithian, Norway
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomida
- Araxoporidae
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Geography
| Country: | Norway | State/province: | Svalbard |
| Coordinates: | 76.9° North, 16.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 54.5° North, 22.7° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Triassic | *Epoch: | Scythian |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Dienerian - Middle Smithian | ||
| Key time interval: | Smithian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 249.9 - 248.1 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Twillingodden | ||||
| Local section: | Bjornskardet | Local bed: | Skilisen Bed | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 98.0 m above formational base | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified grainstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Also present: brachiopods and bivalves | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | PMO 120.668 | ||
| Database number: | 32986 | ||
| Authorizer: | D. Bottjer | Enterer: | C. Powers |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-07-21 16:04:28 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-07-21 16:04:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8835. | H. A. Nakrem and A. Mork. 1991. New early Triassic Bryozoa (Trepostomata) from Spitsbergen, with some remarks on the stratigraphy of the investigated horizons. Geological Magazine 128(2):129-140 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/C. Powers] |