Where: Russian Federation (54.3° N, 85.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 14.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Salairka Beds Member (Salairka Horizon Formation), Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
• Here are the subdivisions of the Telengitian Stage in type locality. Authors correlate stage roughly with Emsian, but note that the Salairka Horizon is said to correlate with the dehiscens Zone, which, according to Harland et al. 1990 is Pragian.
•JA: the dehiscens zone is actually early Emsian
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•Telengitian Stage Shanda Horizon Upper Shanda Beds c.partitus/c.patulus Zone
•Telengitian Stage Shanda Horizon Middle Shanda Beds serotinus Zone
•Telengitian Stage Shanda Horizon Lower Shanda Beds P.n.sp./inversus Zone
•Telengitian Stage Belovo Horizon gronbergi Zone
•Telengitian Stage Salairka Horizon Upper Salairka Beds dehiscens Zone
•Telengitian Stage Salairka Horizon Middle Salairka Beds dehiscens Zone
•Telengitian Stage Salairka Horizon Lower Salairka Beds dehiscens Zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; reef rocks and siltstone
•A: "consists mainly of biogenic-clastic limestone."
• A1: "coral limestones interbedded with siltstones and mudstones containing plant remains"
• A2: "massive reefal limestones" / "biogenic-clastic limestones, locally with coral bioherms"
•B: "composed chiefly of mudstones"
• B1: "interbedded with limestones and richly fossiliferous"
• B2: "barren"
•C: "consists of bedded, platy, clayey limestones locally marked by traces of subaqueous slumping"
•D: "may be equated with a sandy-muddy member with abundant plant remains"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. A. Yolkin, R. T. Gratsianova, N. K. Bakharev, N. E. Izokh, A. Yu Yazikov, L. V. V'yushkova, V. A. Zheltonogova and N. M. Petrosyan. 1988. Facies and faunal associations of the Telengitian (Emsian) in its type locality. In N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, D. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World, Volume III 193-207 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35710: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 05.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Dendrostella columnaris horn coral | |
Lyrielasma fasciculum horn coral
Pseudochonophyllum pseudohelianthoides horn coral | |
Fasciphyllum gorskii horn coral | |
Osteichthyes | |
Dipnoi indet. lungfish | |
Crossopterygii indet. Huxley 1861 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Cheiracanthoides comptus Wells 1944 spiny fish
Nostolepis "sp. A" Pander 1856 spiny fish | |
Acanthodes ? dublinensis spiny fish | |
"? Bradyodonti indet." = Holocephali
"? Bradyodonti indet." = Holocephali Bonaparte 1832 chimaera | |
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch | |
Conodonta | |
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont | |
Pandorinellina sp. Müller and Müller 1957 conodont | |
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont | |
Belodella sp. Ethington 1959 conodont | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Megastrophia (Megastrophiella) sp. Caster 1939 | |
Leptaenopyxis bouei Barrande 1848 | |
Ostracoda | |
Cavellina indistincta ostracod | |
"Marginia lobanovensis" = Tambovia
"Marginia lobanovensis" = Tambovia ostracod | |
Libumella inornata ostracod | |
"Uchtovia kusnezkiensis" = Sargentina, Geisina vjasovskiana
"Uchtovia kusnezkiensis" = Sargentina ostracod
Geisina vjasovskiana ostracod | |
Miraculum tuberculatum ostracod
Miraculum omraensis ostracod | |
Aparchitellina propria ostracod | |
? Evlanella "sp. 1" ostracod | |
Newsomites notabilis ostracod | |
Clavofabellina sp. ostracod
Urftella "sp. 1" ostracod | |
Hanaites "sp. 1" ostracod
Parabolbina "sp. A" ostracod | |
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Orthocypris regula ostracod
Bairdiocypris acra ostracod
Bairdiocypris operosus ostracod
Praepilatina "sp. 1" Polenova 1970 ostracod | |
Bairdia proba ostracod | |
Healdia parva ostracod | |
Microcheilinella ventrosa ostracod
Microcheilinella ex gr. larionovae ostracod | |
Moorites gurjevskiensis ostracod | |
Coeloenellina costulata ostracod |