Outcrop 4a, upper Paren river (Carboniferous to of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (63.4° N, 161.2° E: paleocoordinates 54.0° N, 16.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Magiveem Formation, Gzhelian to Gzhelian (303.7 - 295.5 Ma)

• Middle Magiveem Formation, Jakutoproductus expositus-Palaeoneilo parenica zone. Upper Upper Carboniferous–lower part of the Lower Permian, lower half of the Orochian Horizon. Hindeodus and Streptognathodus were recovered in the studied location from within the middle part of the Magiveem Fm of the Parenian Regional Stage (Horizon). The ammonoid Eoshumardites aff. lenensis (Popow) was found near the base of the formation (Kutygin et al., 2008). The genus is an index of the Kasimovian in Siberia (Ruzhenzev, 1975; Kutygin et al., 2008), although its upper range may extend into at least the middle Gzhelian (Bogoslovskaya, 1997). The age of the succession above the studied bioherm came from another location downstream from the confluence with the Munugudzhak River, approximately 80 km north west from the studied locality. The early Sakmarian ammonoids Uraloceras margaritae Kutygin and Ganelin and Kolymoglaphyrites lazarevi Kutygin and Ganelin were identified in the middle part of Munugudzhak Horizon (Kutygin and Ganelin, 2011), which correlates approximately with the upper part of the Magiveem Formation at the studied location (Biakov, 2010). Accordingly, the age of the entire Magiveem Fm is considered here as Kasimovian–Sakmarian, although the lower Artinskian age for the uppermost part of the formation cannot be excluded. Because of the stratigraphic position of the conodont-bearing horizon within the middle Magiveem Fm (middle part of the 120 m-thick member 3 in Fig. 2) and the biostratigraphy of bivalves and brachiopods, we consider the age of the horizon as Gzhelian-lower Asselian. In terms of local biostratigraphy, it corresponds to Prothyris elongatus bivalve Zone or Verchojania mirandus brachiopod Zone (Ganelin and Biakov, 2006; Biakov, 2010).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• Described as "bioherm" but developed in entirely siliciclastic section

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: SVKNII

Primary reference: V. I. Davydov and A. S. Biakov. 2015. Discovery of shallow-marine biofacies conodonts in a bioherm within the Carboniferous-Permian transition in the Omolon Massif, NE Russia near the North paleo-pole: Correlation with a warming spike in the southern hemisphere. Gondwana Research 28:888-897 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 202199: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Davydov & Biakov list Schizodus fitzroyensis and Schizodus aff. jakolevi (without illustration), presumably the same as Schizodus aff. tschernjaki and Schizodus ex gr. antiquus in Biakov 2019. ?Astartila cf. tumida in Davydov & Biakov may be same as Myofossa subarbitrata in Biakov 2019. Davydov & Biakov list Undulomya sp., whereas Biakov 2019 illustrates Wilkingia sp. for possibly the same specimen.
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo parenica Biakov 1998 clam
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia jamesi Biakov 2002 clam
Phestia undosa Muromtseva 1984 clam
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
Vorkutella sp., "Solemya cf. holmwoodensis" = Acharax holmwoodensis
Vorkutella sp. Muromtseva and Guskov 1984 Awning Clam
"Solemya cf. holmwoodensis" = Acharax holmwoodensis Dickins 1963 Awning Clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Cosmomya sp. Holdhaus 1913 clam
 Pholadomyida - Megadesmidae
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Grammysiopsis omolonicus Muromtseva 1974 clam
Myofossa subarbitrata Dickins 1963 clam
? Wilkingia sp. Wilson 1959 clam
Vacunella praecurvata Astafieva-Urbajtis 1990 clam
Vacunella curvata Morris 1845 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Prothyris elongatus Biakov 2009 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartella sp. Hall 1858 clam
Astartella omolonica Muromtseva 1984 clam
Astartella permocarbonica Tschernyschew 1885 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus aff. tschernjaki Muromtseva 1974 clam
 Heteroconchia -
Parenia parenica Biakov 2019 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
Modiolus cf. koneckii Dickins 1963 mussel
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina permiana Shumard 1860 clam
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
"Kolymopecten mutabilis" = Etheripecten mutabilis Licharew 1927 scallop
? Neptunopecten keyserlingiformis Licharew 1927 scallop
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Leptochondria simensis Licharew 1927 scallop
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis kumpani Fedotov 1932 scallop
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblopteria sp. McCoy 1851 scallop
Streblopteria krasnoufimskensis Fredericks 1915 scallop
Streblopteria eichwaldi Stuckenberg 1898 scallop
Streblopteria englehardti Etheridge and Dun 1906 scallop