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 | |
"Elonichthys" sp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish | |
Haplolepidae indet. Westoll 1944 ray-finned fish | |
Palaeonisciformes indet. Hay 1902 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
? Helodus sp. Agassiz 1838 chimaera |