Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.3° N, 16.2° E: paleocoordinates 69.6° N, 16.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• "Middle to Lower Ryazanian" (all Ryazanian seeps are Berriasian in age according to authors)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Paleontological Collection of the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo

Primary reference: M. R. Sandy, K. Hryniewicz, O. Hammer, H. A. Nakrem, and C. T. S. Little. 2014. Brachiopods from the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep deposits, central Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Zootaxa 3884(6):501-532 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163970: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 21.11.2014, edited by Mihaela Krause

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