3km west of the east slope of Konusdalen, southeast of Deltaneset (Jurassic of Norway)

Where: Spitsbergen, Norway (78.3° N, 15.9° E: paleocoordinates 69.6° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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).

•The excavated discovered specimen PMO 216.838 was found approximately 13 metres below the Dorsoplanites Bed and 14 metres above the yellow silt layer (Hurum et al. 2012, table 1)

Environment/lithology: deep-water; concretionary, sideritic, black, gray, silty mudstone

• The Slottsmøya Member was deposited in an open marine environment under oxygen-deficient settings (Nagy et al., 1988; Dypvik et al., 1991b). Paleogeographic reconstructions for Svalbard during the Kimmeridgian to Valanginian interval place paleoshorelines several hundred kilometres to the north and west (Dypvik et al., 2002).
• The Slottsmøya Member, which ranges from 70 to 100 metres in thickness in the study area, consists of dark grey to black silty mudstone, often weathering to paper shale, discontinuous silty beds, with local occurrences of red to yellowish sideritic concretions as well as siderite and dolomite interbeds (Dypvik et al., 1991a; Hammer et al., 2011; Collignon & Hammer, this volume).

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by a team from PMO (Natural History Museum, University of Oslo) in 2009

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 134741: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae
Colymbosaurus svalbardensis
Colymbosaurus svalbardensis Persson 1962 plesiosaur
PMO 216.838, which includes two incomplete hind limbs and two associated caudal vertebrae