Vestspitsbergen, Passage Beds Fusulinids: Moscovian, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Fusulinidae
sample T 11
Fusulinella bocki Moeller 1878
sample B 372
Fusulinella eopulchra Rauser-Chernousova 1951
sample S 48
Quasifusulina longissima (von Möller 1878)
sample B 372
Pseudostaffellidae
sample F 51
sample T 11
Ozawainellidae
Ozawainella spp. Thompson 1935
sample T 11
Profusulinellidae
sample F 83
see common names

Geography
Country:Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Coordinates: 78.5° North, 16.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.7° North, 7.8° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
Stage: Moscovian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4
Key time interval: Moscovian Foram zone:  Fusulina
Age range of interval: 315.2 - 307 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Campbelllryggen Formation:Passage Beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: description of the fusulinids collected by various expeditions to Spitsbergen
Metadata
Database number:215957
Authorizer:B. Seuss Enterer:B. Seuss
Modifier:B. Seuss Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2020-12-01 05:06:39 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2020-12-01 05:06:39
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

74465. C.L. Forbes. 1960. Carboniferous and Permian Fusulinidae from Spitsbergen. Palaeontology 2(3):210-225 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]