KOL-82.0, Kolosseum Section (Carboniferous of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.6° N, 15.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Protriticites pseudomontiparus Obsoletes obsoletus foram zone, Kapitol Member (Wordiekammen Formation), Kasimovian (307.0 - 303.7 Ma)

• Early Kasimovian, Krevyakinian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

• Repository: Oslo Paleontological Museum (PMO), collection number 43865

Primary reference: V. I. Davydov and I. Nilsson. 1999. Fusulinid Succession from the Middle-Upper Carboniferous Boundary Beds on Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway. Palaeontologia Electronica 2(1) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129648: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Quasifusulinoides sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1959