Well 15/9-13, southern Viking Graben, North Sea (Oligocene of North Atlantic)

Where: North Atlantic (58.4° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hordaland Group, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• 1550-1400 m depth

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; mudstone and claystone

• upper bathyal

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: T. Eidvin and Y. Rundberg. 2007. Post-Eocene strata of the southern Viking Graben, northern North Sea; integrated biostratigraphic, strontium isotopic and lithostratigraphic study. Norwegian Journal of Geology 87:391-450 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121378: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Demospongiae
 Ancorinida - Geodiidae
Geodia sp. Lamarck 1815 demosponge
Protozoa
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Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Rzehakinidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Florilus boueanus Huang et al. 2019
 Rotaliida - Alabaminidae
 Rotaliida - Gavelinellidae
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Plectofrondiculariidae
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Guttulina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Turrilinidae
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
 Asterigerinacea - Asterigerinidae
 Buliminacea - Uvigerinidae
 Rotaliina - Cassidulinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae
Bathysiphon eocenicus Huang et al. 2019
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
Martinottiella communis Huang et al. 2019
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
Annectina biedai Gradstein and Kaminski 1997
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
 Globigerinoidea - Globorotaliidae
  - Chilostomellidae
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Bulimina elongata d'Orbigny 1846