Verkhnyaya Tozma section bed 41 (Permian of Russian Federation)

Where: Vologda, Russian Federation (60.6° N, 45.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 38.8° N, 46.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Verkhnyaya Tozma Member (Sukhona Formation), Early/Lower Severodvinian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• 0.6 m, N1P magnetozone

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified claystone

• Clay, grey, dark grey, strongly calcareous, with transition into marl, with thin (5 mm) layer of black plastic clay in the upper part of the bed

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M.P. Arefiev, V.K. Golubev, Y.P. Balabanov, E.V. Karasev, A.V. Minikh, M.G. Minikh, II Molostovskaya, O.P. Yaroshenko and M.A. Zhokina-Naumcheva. 2015. Type and reference sections of the Permian–Triassic continental sequences of the East European Platform: main isotope, magnetic, and biotic events. XVIII International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian Sukhona and Severnaya Dvina Rivers field trip [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233365: authorized by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, entered by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland on 07.02.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Xenacanthiformes - Xenosynechodontidae
Xenosynechodus egloni
Xenosynechodus egloni Gluckman 1980 elasmobranch
Osteichthyes
 Eurynotoidiformes - Eurynotoidiidae
Lapkosubia uranensis
Lapkosubia uranensis Minikh 1986 ray-finned fish
 Elonichthyiformes - Eigiliidae
Strelnia sp.
Strelnia sp. Minich ray-finned fish
 Elonichthyiformes - Varialepididae
Varialepis sp.
Varialepis sp. Minikh 1990 ray-finned fish
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus biarmicus
Platysomus biarmicus Von Eichwald 1861
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Uranichthys pretoriensis