Festningen tracksite: Barremian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
collected by A. F. de Lapparent, R. Laffitte 1960
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Iguanodontidae
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Iguanodon sp.
Mantell 1825
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5 individuals | |||||||||
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= Iguanodon bernissartensis
Boulenger 1881
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Lapparent 1962 | |||||||||
| "or by a near related form"; 2 trackways and 3 isolated prints | ||||||||||
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= Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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Weishampel and Weishampel 1983 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Svalbard and Jan Mayen |
| Coordinates: | 78.1° North, 13.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 68.5° North, 17.8° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Helvetiafjellet | Member: | Festningen Sandstone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples,paleosol/pedogenic,coarse sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "faint ripple marks and...numerous root holes"; "coarse sandstone" | |
| Environment: | wet floodplain |
| Geology comments: "a marshy soil with vegetation" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | A. F. de Lapparent, R. Laffitte | Collection dates: | Aug 1960 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Isfjord, Spitsbergen | ||
| Database number: | 69755 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-06 08:16:49 | Last modified: | 2022-03-31 15:28:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-06 08:16:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45921. | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1960. Découverte de traces de pas de Dinosauriens dans le Crétacé du Spitzberg [Discovery of dinosaur footprints in the Cretaceous of Siptzbergen]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 251:1399-1400 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 65449 | Anonymous. 1964. Dinosaurier auf Spitzbergen [Dinosaurs from Spitsbergen]. Universum; Natur und Technik 19:254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 56331 | E. H. Colbert. 1964. Dinosaurs of the Arctic. Natural History 73(4):21-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 63771 | E. H. Colbert. 1972. When dinosaurs roamed the Arctic. Marvels and Mysteries of the World Around Us 29-31 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 68933 | R. A. Gangloff. 2012. Dinosaurs Under the Aurora ix-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 52111 | N. Heintz. 1963. Casting dinosaur footprints at Spitsbergen. Curator 6(3):217-225 [M. Carrano/A. Murch] | |
| 52158 | N. Heintz. 1963. Dinosaur-footprints and polar wandering. Arbok - Norsk Polarinstitutt 1962:35-43 [M. Carrano/A. Murch] | |
| 23403 | ETE | J. H. Hurum, J. Milàn, Hammer, I. Midtkandal, H. Amundsen and B. Sæther. 2006. Tracking polar dinosaurs—new finds from the Lower Cretaceous of Svalbard. Norwegian Journal of Geology 86:397-402 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] |
| 36619 | ETE | A. F. d. Lapparent. 1962. Footprints of dinosaur in the Lower Cretaceous of Vestspitsbergen – Svalbard. Norsk Polarinstitutt, Årbok 1960:14-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 78697 | J. J. Moratalla, J. L. Sanz, and S. Jimenez. 1988. Multivariate analysis on Lower Cretaceous dinosaur footprints: discrimination between ornithopods and theropods. Geobios 21(4):395-408 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 81063 | G. M. Walkden and E. F. Oppé. 1969. In the footsteps of dinosaurs. The Amateur Geologist 111(2):19-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 61518 | D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |