Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (77.0° N, 16.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 14.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hovtinden Member (Kapp Starostin Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1960, 1974, 1975

Collection methods: peel or thin section

• Repository: Institute of Palaeobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (ZPAL), and the second part at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow (AI).

•The specimens have been collected during two subsequent Paleontological Expeditions to Spitsbergen in 1974, 1975 organized by the Institute of Palaeobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, under the leadership of Professor Gertruda Biernat. This material was enriched by specimens collected during the Polish Spitsbergen Expedition (Birkenmajer 1960), led by Professor S. Siedlecki in 1960, and lent for study by Dr. S. Czarniecki (Institute of Geological Sciences in Cracow).

Primary reference: H. Hurcewicz. 1982. Permian sponges from brachiopod cherts at Hornsund, Spitsbergen. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 27:85-114 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117799: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.09.2011

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