Festningen, Unit 7 (lower M. weyprechti zone), Spitsbergen: Wuchiapingian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
collected by Norsk Polarinstitutt, Hokkaido Univ 1984

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Waagenoconcha informal sp. A
Waagenoconcha payeri (Toula 1873)
Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae
Megousia weyprechti (Toula 1873)
recombined as Kuvelousia weyprechti
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
Neospirifer striatoparadoxus (Toula 1873)
recombined as Fasciculatia striatoparadoxa
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.1° North, 13.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.9° North, 12.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
Stage:Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Wuchiapingian
Age range of interval:259.51000 - 254.14000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kapp Starostin Member:Hovtinden
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Norsk Polarinstitutt, Hokkaido Univ Collection dates:1984
Metadata
Database number:114078
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-08-09 13:12:19 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-09 13:12:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
33621. K. Nakamura, G. Kimura, and T. S. Winsnes. 1987. Brachiopod zonation and age of the Permian Kapp Starostin Formation (central Spitsbergen). Polar Research 5:207-219 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]