Upper Gypsiferous Series, Billefjorden-Wijdefjorden (Permian of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Where: Svalbard and Jan Mayen (78.5° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 15.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gypsiferous Series Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C.L. Forbes, W.B. Harland, and N.F. Hughes. 1958. Palaeontological evidence for the Age of the Carboniferous and Permian rocks of central Vestspitsbergen. Geological Magazine 95(6):465-490 [W. Foster/W. Foster/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212502: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.08.2020

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus ? sp. King 1844 clam
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon ? sp. de Montfort 1808 snail
Chondrichthyes
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Cladodus sp. Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch