Where: Armenia (39.0° N, 45.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 5.5° S, 52.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gnishik Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Lower Gnishik Formation = middle Murgabian, which is equivalent to the middle Wordian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: G. A. Stukalina. 1999. The Late Permian crinoids from Primorye, Transcaucasia, and North Caucasus. Paleontological Journal 33(2):139-146 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42899: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.08.2004

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