Hornsund: Dienerian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
collected by Hoel, Røvig 1917

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus ? spitzbergensis Hulke 1873
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
? Gyrolepis sp. Agassiz 1833
Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Acrolepis ? arctica Woodward 1912
recombined as Boreosomus arcticus
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 77.0° North, 16.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.8° North, 11.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Dienerian
Age range of interval:251.40000 - 251.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vardebukta Member:Urnetoppen
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Brevassfjellet Myalina Bed, upper part of the Urnetoppen Member (data from Blazejowski, 2004)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,ferruginous lithified conglomerate
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: offshore sand bars
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:-bonebed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Hoel, Røvig Collection dates:1917
Metadata
Database number:153411
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-12-14 22:42:27 Last modified:2013-12-14 22:42:27
Access level:the public Released:2013-12-14 22:42:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
49435. E. A. Stensiö. 1918. Notes on some fish remains collected at Hornsund by the Norwegian Spitzbergen Expedition in 1917. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 5:75-78 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]