P09, Cheremushka Gully, Volga River (Permian of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (55.8° N, 48.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 42.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tobacco Sandstone Member (Isheevo Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Urzhumian beds, numbered P09/127 - P09/135 from bottom to top; the upper part of the formation is at outcrop P11 (Collection no. 197591) (Nurgaliev et al. 2015)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone

• "[Isheevo Formation; Tobacco Sandstone Member (lower part)]

•Packages P09/127 - P09/135 Interval 66.85-72.20m Thickness (visible) 5.35m

•Shale and sandstone. Shales: reddish-brown (chocolate-brown), brownish-red, yellowish, compact, horizontally bedded. Sandstones: greenish-grey (tobacco) polymict, inequigranular, obliquely laminated. The shales contain many (especially right below the sandstones) remains of bivalves, conchostrachans and ostracods.

•Outcrop P10 contains the slide-rocks of overlaid succession, while P11-13 (Collection nos. 197591, 197592) includes the upper part of the Tobacco Sandstone Member and the Krutoovrazhnaya ('Steep Gullies') Member." (Nurgaliev et al. 2015)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. K. Nurgaliev, V. V. Silantiev, and S. V. Nikolaeva. 2015. Type and reference sections of the Middle and Upper Permian of the Volga and Kama River Regions: A Field Guidebook of XVIII International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian. 1-208 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197590: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 17.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
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Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Eustheria eos clam shrimp
 Diplostraca - Lioestheriidae
 Diplostraca - Limnadiidae
 Diplostraca - Euestheriidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Anadontellidae
 Cardiida - Prilukiellidae
 Actinodontida - Palaeomutelidae