Where: Norway (71.2° N, 29.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 22.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dyupetalum sp. - Hamiapollenites bullaeformis Assemblage Zone zone, Rotliegendes to Rotliegendes (283.5 - 272.5 Ma)

• Similarities with Kapp Starostin Formation in Svalbard (Mangerud and Konieczny 1991.1993), with the Sabine Bay and Assistence formations in the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada (Utting, 1985, 1989; Utting and Piasecki) with Ufimian and Kazanian stratotypes on the eastern Russian Platform as well as with the correlative deposits of the western Russian Arctic (N. Koloda pers. comm., 1992)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: bioturbated, gray, silty sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical, mechanical,

• All palynological slides are housed in the type collection of the Paleontological Museum of Oslo.

Primary reference: G. Mangerud. 1994. Palynostratigraphy of the Permian and lowermost Triassic succession, Finnmark Platform, Barents Sea. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 82:317-349 [C. Looy/F. Verbruggen/F. Verbruggen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31345: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Frederike Verbruggen on 08.05.2003

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