Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.7° N, 14.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kapitol Member (Wordiekammen Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Wordiekammen Formation is also known as Nordenskioldbreen Formation; the lowest 16 m of the member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy limestone and lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. D. Somerville. 1997. Biostratigraphy and biofacies of Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian rugose coral assemblages from the Isfjorden area, central Spitsbergen. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Seccion Geologica 92:365-380 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75723: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.10.2007

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