Estheriahaugen North (Devonian of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Spitsbergen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.7° N, 16.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 7.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fiskekløfta Member (Tordalen Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Fiskekløfta Unit 6 per Vogt 1941

Environment/lithology: marine; nodular ironstone and black, brown mudstone

• "Newman et al. (2020) considered the environment of deposition to be a backwater marine environment, most likely a lagoon. Certainly, there is a marine influence, although a lack of marine invertebrate species may indicate that the probable lagoon was part of an estuarine complex." (Newman et al 2021)
• "Fossils [...] are mostly preserved in ironstone nodules found in a 30 metre-thick, poorly stratified, brownish-black mudstone" (Newman et al 2021)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by M. J. Newman, R. Jones, P. Gavin, R. Gavin, T. Tuuling, J. Armstrong, C. Moore, A. Moore, S. Waters in 2018

Primary reference: M. J. Newman, C. J. Burrow, J. L. Blaauwen and S. Giles. 2021. A new actinopterygian Cheirolepis jonesi nov. sp. from the Givetian of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Norwegian Journal of Geology 101(202103) [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225592: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 18.05.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Placodermi
 Arthrodira - Coccosteidae
Coccosteidae indet.
Coccosteidae indet. Asmuss 1856 armour-plated fish
Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
Actinopterygii indet.
Actinopterygii indet. Cope 1887 ray-finned fish
 Cheirolepidiformes - Cheirolepididae
Cheirolepis jonesi n. sp.
Cheirolepis jonesi n. sp. Newman et al. 2021 ray-finned fish
Holotype: PMO 235.120; paratype: PMO 235.121
 Sarcopterygii -
Sarcopterygii indet.
Sarcopterygii indet. lobe-finned fish
Chondrichthyes
 Acanthodii -
Acanthodii indet.
 Ischnacanthiformes -
Serradentus armstrongi n. gen. n. sp.
Serradentus armstrongi n. gen. n. sp. Newman et al. 2019 spiny fish
Holotype: PMO 234.601; Oslo A21548; Uppsala P 474, P 491c; Stockholm NRM P 5060
Pteraspidomorpha
 Pteraspidiformes - Psammosteidae
Psammosteidae indet.
Psammosteidae indet. Traquair 1896