Schmidt Cape and Tchernyschev Bay in Russian Island, Bed 17 (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Where: Primorye, Russian Federation (42.9° N, 131.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 110.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zhitkov Formation, Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Upper Olenekian, Russian Substage, Neocolumbites insignis Zone, Zhitkov Suite, Layer 17 (4m)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone and lithified siltstone

• Siltstone and mudstone with calcareous concretions.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. D. Zakharov, A. M. Popov, and G. I. Buryi. 2004. Triassic Ammonoid succession in South Primorye: 2. Middle Olenekian Tirolites - Amphistephanites Zone. Albertiana 29:29-37 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47293: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 22.02.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Trematosauridae
? Aphaneramma sp. Woodward 1904 tetrapod
Aphaeneramma or Gonioglyptus
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Columbitidae
"Columbites ussuriensis" = Procolumbites ussuriensis
"Columbites ussuriensis" = Procolumbites ussuriensis Zakharov 1968 ceratite
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Lycopodiopsida
 Isoetales - Pleuromeiaceae