Shakh-Tau Shikhan (Lower Sakmarian) (Permian of Russian Federation)

Where: Bashkortostan, Russian Federation (53.6° N, 56.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 43.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sakmarian (293.5 - 290.1 Ma)

• Lower Sakmarian Limestones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Mazaev, Boiko; reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: T. B. Leonova. 2020. Asselian-Sakmarian ammonoids of the Early Permian Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan). Paleontological Journal 54:1095-1112 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217201: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.01.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Medlicottia subdorbignyi Gerassimov 1937 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Neopronorites tenuis Karpinsky 1889 ammonite
Sakmarites aff. asaphus1 Ruzhencev 1938 ammonite
Sakmarites postcarbonarius1 Karpinsky 1874 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Somoholitidae
Somoholites shikhanensis Ruzhencev 1938 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
Paragastrioceras aff. sterlitamakense Gerassimov 1937 ammonite
Uraloceras aff. limatulum Ruzhencev 1938 ammonite
 Nautilida - Rhiphaeoceratidae
 Nautilida - Liroceratidae
Shikhanonautilus siphonoventralis3 Leonova and Shchedukhin 2020