Where: Tula, Russian Federation (53.8° N, 37.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 17.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: praesculata conodont zone, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Khovanshchinian Regional Stage

•"Rzhonsnitskaya & Kulikova (1990) correlate the Khovanshchinian RS to the upper part of the costatus conodont Zone (CZ) which is equivalent to the lower part of the praesulcata CZ of the standard conodont zonation" (Lebedev et al 2018)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. V. Tikhomirov in 1947

Primary reference: O. A. Lebedev, G. V. Zakharenko, V. V. Silantiev and I. O. Evdokimova. 2018. New finds of fishes in the lower uppermost Famennian (Upper Devonian) of Сentral Russia and habitats of the Khovanshchinian vertebrate assemblages. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 67(1):59-75 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225666: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 24.05.2022

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