Where: Norway (73.3° N, 23.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 18.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gipsdalen Group, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• The drilling cores where taken from the Palaeozoic rocks in the centre of the dome. Almost no Quaternary cover is present.

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray limestone and grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core, chemical, mechanical,

• Also found but not speciefied: Echinodermata, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, Tubiphytes, Foraminifera, Bivalves, Gastropods, Ostracods, Agea, Palynomorphs

Primary reference: I. Nilsson, G. Mangerud, and A. Mørk. 1996. Permian stratigraphy of the Svalis Dome south-western Barents Sea. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 76:127-146 [C. Looy/W. Puijk/C. Looy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31387: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Wilma Puijk on 12.05.2003