Orthoceratite limestone specimen (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (59.8° N, 30.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 0.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Volkhov Formation, Dapingian (470.0 - 467.3 Ma)

• Orthoceratite limestone, Dapingian Stage, Volkhov Regional Stage. PJW: This should be the Volkhov formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Eichwald in 1860

• Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (PIN)

Primary reference: S. V. Rozhnov. 2016. Aboral nervous system in two Ordovician crinoids: Reconstruction and comparison of Baltic Pentamerocrinus Jaekel and Grammocrinus Eichwald. Paleontological Journal 50(2):163-173 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202063: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 20.06.2019

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Myelodactylida - Iocrinidae
Grammocrinus lineatus n. gen. n. sp.
Grammocrinus lineatus n. gen. n. sp. Eichwald 1860 Sea lily