Gipsvika (Permian of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.5° N, 16.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 13.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tyrrellfjellet Member (Wordiekammen Formation), Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mari Skaug in 1980

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: H. A. Nakrem, B. Błażejowski, and A. Gaździcki. 2009. Lower Permian bryozoans from southern and central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54:677-698 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115258: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Shulgapora cf. porosa Eichwald 1860
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Rectifenestella submicroporata Schulga-Nesterenko 1952
Rectifenestella nikiforovae Schulga-Nesterenko 1936
Fabifenestella cf. quadratopora Schulga-Nesterenko 1939
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Ascopora sterlitamakensis Nikiforova 1939
Ascopora magniseptata Schulga-Nesterenko 1955
Ascopora grandis Kruchinina 1973
Ascopora birkenmajeri n. sp. Nakrem et al. 2009
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
 Trepostomida - Crustoporidae
 Cystoporida - Hexagonellidae
Coscinium cyclops Keyserling 1846