Genus: Palvennia DRUCKENMILLER, HURUM, KNUTSEN, & NAKREM, 2012
Etymology: PalVennia from PalVenn (Friends of the Palaeontological Museum in Oslo), whos anniversary expedition in 2004 lead to the disvovery of SVB 1451.

Species: hoybergeti DRUCKENMILLER, HURUM, KNUTSEN, & NAKREM, 2012
Etymology: In honour of Magne Høyberget of Mandal, Norway, long-time participant in the Spitsbergen Jurassic Research Group fieldwork on Spitsbergen.
= Arthropterygius hoybergeti (DRUCKENMILLER, HURUM, KNUTSEN, & NAKREM, 2012) ZVERKOV & PRILEPSKAYA, 2019

Holotype: SVB 1451

Locality: North side of Janusfjellet, approximately 13 km northeast of Longyearbyen, Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard, Norway.

Horizon: 15.2 meters below the Dorsoplanites Bed, Slottsmøya Member, Agardhfjellet Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Dorsoplanites ilovaiskyi to Dorsoplanites maximus ammonite zone.

Age: Middle Volgian (Tithonian Stage), Upper Malm Epoch, Upper Late Jurassic.

Materal: A nearly complete skull, atlas/axis complex, proximal and distal porions of a humerus adn isolated distal limb elements and several disarticulated dorsal rib.

Referred material:

DELSETT, DRUCKENMILLER, ROBERTS, & HURUM, 2018

PMO 222.669: Fragmentary skull and front half of skeleton.

 

= Arthropterygius cf. hoybergeti ZVERKOV & PRILEPSKAYA, 2019

Locality: Right back of the Volga River near Gorodischi Village, Ulyanovsk Region, European Russia.

Horizon: Promza Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Dorsoplanites panderi Ammonite Biozeon.

Age: Early Middle Volgian Substage, Tithonian Stage, Late Jurassic.

Material:

YKM 63548: A slab containing a series of 19 presacral vertebrae with articulated neural arches and ribs, right humerus, a cast of the left humerus, a cast of the left humerus with associated radius, ulna and intermedium (original forelimb was lost because of pyrite decay).

 

Locality: Volga River near Gorodischi Village, Ulyanovsk Region, European Russia.

Horizon: Promza Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Dorsoplanites panderi Ammonite Biozeon.

Age: Early Middle Volgian Substage, Tithonian Stage, Late Jurassic.

Material:

UPM 2442: Isolated humerus.

 

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