33m Above the Fish Horizon, Mt. Viking (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.3° N, 16.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sticky Keep Formation (Sassendalen Group), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: E. A. Stensiö. 1921. Triassic Fishes from Spitzbergen, Part I 1-307 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120222: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 09.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria mougeoti Agassiz 1843
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish
Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Quasianosteosauridae
Quasianosteosaurus vikinghoegdai n. gen. n. sp. Maisch and Matzke 2003 ichthyosaur
MNHN SVT 331, partial skull
Osteichthyes
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Boreosomus scaber Stensiö 1921 ray-finned fish
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus vermiformis n. sp. Stensiö 1921 elasmobranch
Acrodus spitzbergensis Hulke 1873 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus microdus n. sp. Stensiö 1921 elasmobranch
Hybodus sasseniensis n. sp. Stensiö 1921 elasmobranch
Hybodus rapax n. sp. Stensiö 1921 elasmobranch