KOL-87.5, Kolosseum Section: Moscovian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Fusulinidae
Fusulinellinae indet. Staff and Wedekind 1910
Fusulinella to Praeobsoletes
Protriticites sphaericus Volozhanina 1962
Quasifusulinoides sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1959
Schubertellidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.6° North, 15.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.7° North, 7.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Moscovian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4
Key time interval: Moscovian Foram zone:  Protriticites ovatus-Quasifusulinoides quasifusulinoides
Age range of interval: 315.2 - 307 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wordiekammen Member:Kapitol
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Late Myachkovian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Oslo Paleontological Museum (PMO), collection number 43865
Metadata
Database number:129649
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2012-06-26 06:59:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-06-26 06:59:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
42137. V. I. Davydov and I. Nilsson. 1999. Fusulinid Succession from the Middle-Upper Carboniferous Boundary Beds on Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway. Palaeontologia Electronica 2(1) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]