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DURING the course of an ecological survey of Bear Island in the summer of 1948, a nearly complete labyrinthodont skeleton was found lying horizontally in the fissile shales of the Mount Misery plateau. These shales are believed to belong to the Upper Triassic, and the overlying "Myophoria Sandstone" has a rich marine fauna of Carnian age1. The site was about 430 m. above sea-level on the southern slopes of Urd (the highest point on the island and the most southerly of the three peaks of Mount Misery), about 100 m. below the peak and very close to the edge of the steep slopes falling to the sea on the southern side.
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LOWY, J. A Labyrinthodont from the Trias of Bear Island, Spitsbergen. Nature 163, 1002 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1631002b0
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