Where: Russian Federation (60.0° N, 32.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° S, 1.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Megistaspis simon trilobite zone, Jeltiaki Member (Volkhov Formation), Volkhov (471.1 - 469.2 Ma)
• Meterage is negative because 0 meterage in section is at boundary between Jeltiaki member and overlying Frizy member which rests above this sample.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: T. Hansen and A. T. Nielsen. 2003. Upper Arenig trilobite biostratigraphy and sea-level changes at Lynna River near Volkhov, Russia. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 50:105-114 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 157086: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 05.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
? Laneites ingrica Schmidt 1881 trilobite
Cyrtometopus clavifrons Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Pterygometopus sclerops Dalman 1827 trilobite | |
Metopolichas sp. Gürich 1901 trilobite | |
? Agerina sp. Tjernvik 1956 trilobite | |
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Lonchodomas volborthi Schmidt 1894 trilobite |