Standard section at Putilovo Quarry (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Also known as Standard section at Putilovo Quarry, B. navis zone, Volkhov Stage

Where: Russian Federation (59.9° N, 31.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° S, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baltoniodus navis - Baltoniodus triangularis conodont zone, Dikari Member (Volkhov Formation), Volkhov (471.1 - 469.2 Ma)

• Volkhov stage, upper Dikari Member; Baltoniodus navis conodont zone

•JA: reassigned from the Arenigian to the Dapingian based on conodont zonation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified claystone

• limestones with soft clay intercalations outside of the mud mound

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Egerquist. 2003. New brachiopods from the Lower-Middle Ordovician (Billingen-Volkhov stages) of the East Baltic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(1):31-38 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62339: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Ranorthidae
? Ranorthis trivia Rubel 1961
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Productorthidae
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
Paurorthis parva Pander 1830