Also known as Plesiosaur locality

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.2° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 48.2° N, 0.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: De Geerdalen Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: CASP collection at the University of Cambridge

Primary reference: B. P. Kear and E. E. Maxwell. 2013. Wiman's forgotten plesiosaurs: the earliest recorded sauropterygian fossils from the High Arctic. GFF (Geologiska Foreningen) [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 145895: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 12.06.2013

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