Facies B1, Middle Shanda Beds, type Telengitian (Gur'evsk area) (Devonian of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (54.3° N, 85.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Shanda Beds Member (Shanda Horizon Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 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: originally entered as Emsian; the serotinus zone is late Emsian

•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; mudstone and limestone

• Initiation of Telengitian marked by transgression, and termination by regression. Smaller cycles within the stage.
• Beds in type sections divided into a number of facies and subfacies:

•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 35718: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 05.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Material listed includes fish, plants, conodonts, ostracods, brachiopods, and rugose corals. Bryozoans, trilobites, tabulate corals, and crinoids are also known from these sections, but these have not been studied as completely and are not reported here.
unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum breviforme horn coral
listed as "Acantophyllum"
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphylloides divisum horn coral
listed as "Cystiphiloides"
Cystiphylloides varium horn coral
listed as "Cystiphilloides"
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral
Ostracoda
 Hollinocopida - Primitiopsidae
 Beyrichicopida - Bolliidae
Ulrichia "sp. 1" Jones 1890 ostracod
 Palaeocopida -
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyellidae
Kirkbyella (Kirkbyella) "sp. 1" Coryell and Booth 1933 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
Hollina "sp. 1" Ulrich and Bassler 1908 ostracod
Ctenoloculina "sp. 1" Bassler 1941 ostracod
Ctenoloculina "sp. 2" Bassler 1941 ostracod
 Palaeocopida -
 Platycopida - Miltonellidae
 Podocopida - Berounellidae
 Podocopida - Microcheilinellidae
 Podocopida - Thlipsuridae
 Podocopida - Tricorninidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia crebta ostracod
 Podocopida -
Bairdiohealdites karcevae ostracod
listed as "Bardiohealdites"
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Megastrophia (Megastrophiella) uralensis" = Megastrophia (Megastrophia) uralensis
"Megastrophia (Megastrophiella) uralensis" = Megastrophia (Megastrophia) uralensis de Verneuil 1845
 Strophomenida - Leptodontellidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaenopyxis bouei Barrande 1848
 Strophomenida -
"Hemichonetes (Hemichonetes) inflexus n. sp." = Chlupacina
"Hemichonetes (Hemichonetes) inflexus n. sp." = Chlupacina
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
 Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Belodella sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
Chondrichthyes
 Climatiiformes - Climatiidae
Cheiracanthoides "sp. A" Wells 1944 spiny fish
Cheiracanthoides comptus Wells 1944 spiny fish
Nostolepis "sp. A" Pander 1856 spiny fish
Nostolepis "sp. B" Pander 1856 spiny fish
Nostolepis sp. Pander 1856 spiny fish