Where: Svalbard, Norway (78.9° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 64.7° N, 10.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kapp Koburg Member (Wilhelmøya Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; concretionary, sideritic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected in 1973
Primary reference: D. Worsley and N. Heintz. 1977. The stratigraphic significance of a marine vertebrate fauna of Rhaetian age, Kong Karls Land. Årbok Norsk Polarinstitutt 1976:69-81 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107002: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 31.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur One partial skeleton (not collected), multiple isolated elements (limb and rib and gastralia fragments)
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