Wiederfjellet, Hecla Hook Series: Early Ordovician, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurea spp. (Le Sueur 1818)
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 76.8° North, 16.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:76.8° North, 16.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Early Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 1-2
Key time interval: Early Ordovician
Age range of interval: 485.4 - 470 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hecla Hook Formation:Tsjebysjovfjellet Limestones
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:212595
Authorizer:W. Foster Enterer:W. Foster
Modifier:W. Foster Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-08-16 20:10:06 Last modified:2020-08-23 04:09:03
Access level:the public Released:2020-08-16 20:10:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

73425. H. Major and T. S. Winsnes. 1955. Cambrian and Ordovician fossils from Sørkapp Land, Spitsbergen. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 106:1-63 [W. Foster/W. Foster/O. Alfaro]