Lopsiya River, outcrop 41, bed 9: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Virgataxioceras dividuum
Zakharov et al. 2005
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aulacostephanidae
Aulacostephanus (Aulacostephanus) volgensis (Vischniakoff 1875)
(2 measurements)
Aulacostephanus (Aulacostephanus) undorae (Pavlov 1886)
Zakharov et al. 2005
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Aspidoceras longispinum (Sowerby 1825)
Zakharov et al. 2005
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
Simobelus (Simobelus) mamillaris
Zakharov et al. 2005 very rare category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia sp. Lycett 1850
Zakharov et al. 2005 frequent category
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte (Astarte) lopsiyaensis
Zakharov et al. 2005 frequent category
A. (A.) lopsiyaensis lopsiyaensis
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
Zakharov et al. 2005 rare category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cf. lens (Sowerby 1818)
Zakharov et al. 2005 rare category
recombined as Camptonectes lens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. (Meek and Hayden 1865)
Zakharov et al. 2005 rare category
original and current combination Avicula (Oxytoma)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia (Placunopsis) sp. Linnaeus 1758
Zakharov et al. 2005 very rare category
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904
Zakharov et al. 2005 very frequent category
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Coordinates: 62.5° North, 60.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.5° North, 56.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian Ammonoid zone: Aulacostephanus autissiodorensis
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Kimmeridgian Stage, Upper Substage, Aulacostephanus autissiodorensis Zone, Virgataxioceras dividuum Subzone (upper 1.5 m); thickness: 2.5 m. Zakharov et al. use the faunal lists from Mesezhnikov (1984) and the two sections correspond up to bed 7; after that Zakharov et al. skip or combine Mesezhnikov's beds so Zakharov et al.'s scale is offset by one.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,blue lithified claystone
Lithology description: Gray bluish plastic clays. The bed contains flattened round concretions of gray clay limestone to 0.6 m across.
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: The explored Kimmeridgian section denuded along the Lopsiya River formed under the embayment conditions of an epicontinental West Siberian sea, covering the territory of more than 2 mln km^2. This Lyapinsky Bay was rather shallow and opened toward the NNE. The narrow band of the Uralian Peninsula seperated it from the Timon-Pechora Sea in the west, and the small Berezovsky Archipelago seperated it from the West Siberian Sea in the east.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: VNIGRI
Metadata
Also known as:Bed 13; Bed 8 of Zakharov et al. 2005
Database number:58783
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-02-24 04:53:28 Last modified:2014-11-30 00:10:55
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-24 04:53:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53547. M. S. Mesezhnikov. 1984. Kimeridzhskiy i Volzhskiy Yarusy Severa SSSR 1-224 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

16680 V. A. Zakharov, F. Baudin, O. S. Dzyuba, V. Daux, K. V. Zverev and M. Renard. 2005. Isotopic and faunal record of high paleotemperatures in the Kimmeridgian of Subpolar Urals. Russian Geology and Geophysics 46(1):3-20 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]