A Late Jurassic Boreal echinoderm Lagerstätte from Janusfjellet, central Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway

• Main Author: Rousseau, Julie
• Other Authors: Hans Arne Nakrem, Øyvind Hammer
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: VDP::450; Agardhfjellet; Arctic; Janusfjellet; Norway; Slottsmøya; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/12551; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-28904

A well preserved, low diversity assemblage of fossil echinoderms is described from the Volgian Slottsmøya Member (Agardhfjellet Formation) on central Spitsbergen. Five species are recognized: the isocrinid Chariocrinus sp. A, the pedinoid Hemipedina sp. A, the forcipulate asteroid Asteriidae sp. A,...