Where: Spitsbergen, Norway (79.8° N, 17.8° E: paleocoordinates 79.8° N, 17.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudocybele nasuta trilobite zone, Olenidsletta Member (Valhallfonna Formation), Billingen (474.8 - 471.1 Ma)

• While collections were made throughout section, only ranges of trilobite species are reported. Zone V2a comprises meters 75-100 of the Olenidsletta Member. Likely correlates with part of "zone J" of Ross 1951, Hintze 1951, 1952.

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•This would be Billingen on the Baltic scale (PJW).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, gray limestone and lithified, black limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. A. Fortey in 1967

Primary reference: R. A. Fortey. 1980. The Ordovician trilobites of Spitsbergen. III. Remaining trilobites of the Valhallfonna Formation. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 171:1-163 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106473: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 18.03.2011

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