Where: Spitsbergen, Norway (78.3° N, 15.9° E: paleocoordinates 69.6° N, 15.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Slottsmøya Member (Agardhfjellet Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• Upper part of the Slottsmøya Member, Agardhfjellet Formation, Janusfjellet, Middle Volgian (Tithonian; Nagy & Basov, 1998; Collignon & Hammer 2012; Gradstein et al. in press).
•From either the Dorsoplanites maximus or D. ilovaiskyi zone, corresponding to the Middle Volgian
Environment/lithology: deep-water; concretionary, sideritic, black, gray, silty mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by American medical doctors studying the occurrence of the common flu in 1930-31
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• PMO, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo collection
Primary reference: E. M. Knutsen, P. S. Druckenmiller, and J. Hurum. 2012. Redescription and taxonomic clarification of ‘Tricleidus’ svalbardensis based on new material from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Volgian). Norwegian Journal of Geology 92:175-186 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 134739: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Tricleidus svalbardensis n. sp." = Colymbosaurus svalbardensis
"Tricleidus svalbardensis n. sp." = Colymbosaurus svalbardensis Persson 1962 plesiosaur PMO A 27745, partial postcranial skeleton
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