S7, Sentyak Section, Kama River (Permian of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (55.7° N, 51.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 44.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lingula Shale Member (Baitugan Formation), Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Lower Kazanian beds, numbered S7/4 and S7/5 from bottom to top; S7/4 (which contains the fossils) is of the Lingula Shale Member, while S7/5 is of the Kamyshla Beds (Nurgaliev et al. 2015)

•Overlies the beds of the Sentyak borehole (Collection no. 197599) and overlain by the beds of outcrop S6 (Collection no. 197601)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and marl

• "[Lower Kazanian Substage - Baitugan Beds - Lingula Shale Member]

•Package S7/4 Interval 21.0 - 40.0m Thickness 19.0m

•Grey, thinly bedded limestones and marls with interbeds of greenish-grey shales. The lower part of the bed is composed of bioclastic limestones containing small foraminifers, ostracods, and also the mass accumulations of distorted shells of the brachiopod Cancrinella cancrini. Along with Cancrinella, the rock contains the more rarely occurring brachiopod Licharewia rugulata, fragments of branched and reticulate bryozoans, crinoids, and the conodont Kamagnathus khalimbadzhae. The base of the bioclastic limestone bed have the feeding burrows (10–15 mm in diameter) branched in the horizontal plane and filled with shell debris. The upper part of the bed contains thin alternations (0.1–0.2 m) of limestones, marls, and shales with well-developed platy structures. The rock contains foraminifers, rare marine bivalves, brachiopods, and ostracods. Some beds contain numerous remains of plants.

•[Kamyshla Beds]

•Package S7/5 Interval 40.0-52.0m Thickness 12.0m

•Greenish-grey, polymict, obliquely bedded, calcareous sandstone with pebbles of argillaceous rock. The sandstone contains the imprints of plants and silicified tree trunks.

•The overlying beds are accessible in outcrop S6." (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 197600: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 17.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Cancrinella cancrini de Verneuil 1845
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Licharewiidae
Licharewia rugulata Kutorga 1842
Bryozoa
 Bryozoa -
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina sp. Coryell 1928 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Ellisoniidae
"Kamagnathus khalimbadzhae" = Stepanovites khalimbadzhae
"Kamagnathus khalimbadzhae" = Stepanovites khalimbadzhae Chernykh et al. 2001 conodont
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Foraminifera
 Lagenina - Syzraniidae
Sphenopsida
  -
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Cardiolepidaceae