Where: Spitsbergen, Norway (79.8° N, 17.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 27.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Psephosthenaspis pseudobathyurus trilobite zone, Profilbekken Member (Valhallfonna Formation), Whiterockian (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• While collections were made throughout section, only ranges of trilobite species are reported. Zone V4a comprises meters 75-100 of the Profilbekken Member. Correlates with part of "zone L" of Ross 1951, Hintze 1951, 1952.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, gray limestone and breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. A. Fortey in 1967

Primary reference: R. A. Fortey. 1980. The Ordovician trilobites of Spitsbergen. III. Remaining trilobites of the Valhallfonna Formation. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 171:1-163 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106478: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 18.03.2011, edited by Mihaela Krause

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