Where: Russian Federation (55.4° N, 44.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 40.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kungurian to Kungurian (279.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Particularly abundant in the limestones and the reddish sandstones that form with gypsum the lower stage of the vast Permian deposits (Murchison's Permian began with the Kungurian). Does not extend to the upper part of the Permian deposits.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, gypsiferous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Roderick Murchison, Eduoard de Verneuil, Alexandre Keyserling in 1840

Primary reference: E. de Verneuil. 1845. Paléontologie. Géologie de la Russie d'Europe et des Montagne de l'Oural, Paléontologie 2(3):1-512 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117245: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.09.2011

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