ammonites
Billefjorden-Location 3 (Devonian of Norway)

Also known as West side of Billefjorden

Where: Svalbard, Norway (78.5° N, 18.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.9° N, 6.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Devonian (391.9 - 383.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: micaceous, gray, green shale

• This plant fossil was found together with some indeterminalbe plant fragments of a reddish colour, in a greenish grey shale containing considerable amounts of mica.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• This fossil was described only by Hoeg, although found by Nathorst in 1882. Hoeg described it to show relative abundance of plant forms in this Flora.

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

PaleoDB collection 21118: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Allison Tuell on 18.06.2002