Mikadocephalus Middlehook: Ladinian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Guanlingsauridae
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Mikadocephalus gracilirostris
Maisch and Matzke 1997
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Geography
| Country: | Svalbard and Jan Mayen |
| Coordinates: | 77.7° North, 14.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.0° North, 3.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
| Stage: | Ladinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Ladinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 242.00000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tschermakjfellet |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
| Environment: | deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: 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. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 175939 | ||
| Authorizer: | V. Fischer | Enterer: | V. Fischer | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-01-20 07:02:14 | Last modified: | 2016-01-20 07:02:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-01-20 07:02:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34247. | 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] |