Levyy Titan Creek, Bed 45, Intomodesma evenicum Subzone, Okhotsk Massif (Permian of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (61.1° N, 147.2° E: paleocoordinates 77.7° N, 24.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kulu Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• 12 m thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained, medium, shelly/skeletal, gray, green sandstone

• Light greenish gray sandstones, fine- to medium-grained, massive with rare poorly sustained laminae (from a few millimeters to 3 cm) of darker siltstone and black shale. There are interbeds (from 1 to 10 cm) composed of fragments and rare intact shells of inoceram-like bivalves.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. S. Biakov. 2007. Permian biostratigraphy of the northern Okhotsk region (northeast Asia). Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 15(2):161-184 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102208: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Asteroidea
 Asteroidea -
Asteroidea indet.
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae
Intomodesma evenica
Intomodesma evenica Kuznetsov 1991 clam