Bear Island (Devonian of Norway)

Where: Norway (74.5° N, 19.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 3.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone and shale

• quartz conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: O. Holtedahl. 1920. On the Paleozoic series of Bear Island, especially on the Heclahook system. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 5:121-148 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154904: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.03.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Placodermi
 Antiarchiformes - Asterolepididae
"Asterolepidae sp." = Asterolepididae
"Asterolepidae sp." = Asterolepididae Traquair 1888 armour-plated fish
Osteichthyes
 Dipnomorpha - Holoptychiidae
Holoptychius cf. americanus Leidy 1843 lobe-finned fish
"Holoptychius giganteus" = Gyrolepis (Holoptychius) giganteus Agassiz 1843 lobe-finned fish
Holoptychius nobilissimus Agassiz 1835 lobe-finned fish