Oryol (Devonian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Orel

Where: Oryol Oblast, Russian Federation (53.0° N, 36.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 17.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Dankov-Lebedyan Beds Formation, Middle Famennian (370.6 - 364.7 Ma)

• Tugenevo beds/Dankov-Lebedyan beds, Zadonskian/Plavsk regional stage, Central Devonian Field

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. C. Sallan and M. I. Coates. 2010. End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(22):10131-10135 [D. Briggs/C. Whalen/C. Whalen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226045: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 13.06.2022, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae
Acrolepis reticulata Eichwald 1860 ray-finned fish
 Tetrapodomorpha -
Jakubsonia livnensis Lebedev 2004 lobe-finned fish
 Osteolepidida - Osteolepididae
Glyptopomus bystrowi lobe-finned fish
 Dipteriformes - Rhynchodipteridae
 Dipteriformes - Dipteridae
Conchodus sp. McCoy 1848 lungfish
 Dipnoi - Holodontidae
 Osteolepiformes -
Cryptolepis grossi Vorobyeva 1975 lobe-finned fish
 Dipnomorpha - Holoptychiidae
Glyptolepis dellei lobe-finned fish
 Onychodontida -
Strunius rolandi Gross 1936 lobe-finned fish
Actinopteri
  -
Moythomasia sp. Gross 1950
Placodermi
 Ptyctodontida - Ptyctodontidae
Ptyctodus major Rohon 1895 armour-plated fish
 Antiarchiformes - Bothriolepididae
Bothriolepis siberica Obruchev 1941 armour-plated fish
 Antiarchiformes - Asterolepididae
Remigolepis armata armour-plated fish
Chondrichthyes
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Symmorium glabrum elasmobranch
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Pycnacanthus fischeri bullhead shark
 Diplacanthiformes -
Devononchus sp. Gross 1940 spiny fish
 Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
 Ischnacanthida -
Ischnacanthida indet. Berg 1940 spiny fish