Artyom Town, "SMID" quarry, Bed 12 (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Primorye, Russian Federation (43.3° N, 132.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 112.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Karazin Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Lower Anisian, Leiophyllites pradyumna Zone, Karzin Suite, Layer 12 (50m)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy siltstone and lithified mudstone

• Spotted sandy siltstone and mudstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. D. Zakharov, Y. Shigeta, A. M. Popov, G. I. Buryi, A. V. Oleinikov, E. A. Dorukhovskaya, and T. M. Mikhalik. 2002. Triassic Ammonoid succession in South Primorye: 1. Lower Olenekian Hedenstroemia bosphorensis and Anasibirites nevolini Zones. Albertiana 27:42-64 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47244: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.02.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
? Hollandites sp. Diener 1907 ceratite
 Phylloceratida - Palaeophyllitidae
Leiophyllites sp. Diener 1915 ammonite