Also known as Frankelryggen

Where: Svalbard, Norway (78.0° N, 20.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.3° N, 17.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Frankelryggen Formation, Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• The brook exposes a section at a height of about 60 m above sea level, the beds dipping 20-30 degrees in a direction varying from V 10-V 40 degrees south, which causes the stratigraphically highest beds to occur lowest down in the ravine.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and green shale

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: O. A. Hoeg. 1942. The Downtonian and Devonian Flora of Spitsbergen. Skrifter (83) [P. Gensel/A. Tuell/A. Tuell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20839: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Allison Tuell on 10.06.2002

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