Karpėnai quarry (Permian of Lithuania)

Where: Lithuania (56.3° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 28.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Naujoji Akmenė Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum at the Institute of Geosciences of Vilnius University (VU-ICH-NK)

Primary reference: D. Dankina, A. Chahud, S. Radzevičius and A. Spiridonov. 2017. The first microfossil record of ichthyofauna from the Naujoji Akmenė Formation (Lopingian), Karpėnai Quarry, north Lithuania. Geological Quarterly 61:602-610 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 222506: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.09.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
"Elonichthys" sp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish
 Actinopterygii - Haplolepidae
Haplolepidae indet. Westoll 1944 ray-finned fish
 Palaeonisciformes -
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Chondrichthyes
 Helodontiformes - Helodontidae
? Helodus sp. Agassiz 1838 chimaera