Mikadocephalus Middlehook (Triassic of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (77.7° N, 14.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 3.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tschermakjfellet Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified shale
• From I.B. Hynne 2010.Depositional environment on eastern Svalbard and central Spitsbergen during Carnian time (Late Triassic):A sedimentological investigation of the De Geerdalen Formation. Master thesis in Arctic Geology, University of Central Svalbard.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 2000. The Ichthyosauria. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Palaontologie) 298:1-159 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175939: authorized by Valentin Fischer, entered by Valentin Fischer on 20.01.2016
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