Hyrnefjellet, CH 5b1, Hornsund, Upper Treskelodden Beds, Spitsbergen (Permian to of Norway)

Also known as Reef 3429

Where: Svalbard, Norway (77.0° N, 16.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 13.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Treskelodden Beds Member (Treskelodden Beds Formation), Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• Treskelodden Beds are older than Artinskian (Fedorowski, 1986)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• thickness of Coral Horizon 5 (layers a-c): about 14 m

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. Nowinski. 1991. Late Carboniferous to early Permian Tabulata from Spitsbergen. Palaeontologia Polonica 51:3-74 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61486: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Roemerolites laminatus tabulate coral
Fuchungopora arctica tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Roemeriidae
Roemeripora aspinosa tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Tetraporellidae
Tetraporinus spinosus n. sp. tabulate coral