Where: Tuva, Russian Federation (51.4° N, 92.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 28.9° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Herbesskaya Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; tuffaceous, gray, yellow lime mudstone and quartzose sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the PIN
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: A. M. Prokofiev. 2004. A remarkable new paleoniscoid fish (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii) from the Lower Carboniferous of Tuva Republic (Russia). Paleontological Research 8(2):109-114 [S. Peters/S. McMullen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 230002: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 27.04.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Grassator sp. Kazantseva 1968 | |
Ganolepis sp. Woodward 1893 |