Marmierfjellet, Spitsbergen: Spathian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae
Birgeria sp. Stensiö 1919
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet. (Agassiz 1834)
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.3° North, 16.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° North, 8.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Spathian
Age range of interval:248.90000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sticky Keep
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 2 m below the top of the formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Svalbard Collection, Department of Geology, University of Cambridge
Metadata
Database number:149369
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-08-03 09:38:48 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2013-08-03 09:38:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
47810. C. B. Cox and D. G. Smith. 1973. A review of the Triassic vertebrate faunas of Svalbard. Geological Magazine 110:405-418 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]