Gzhel' Station (Carboniferous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (55.6° N, 38.4° E: paleocoordinates 15.5° N, 31.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rechitsy Formation, Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Rusavkinskiy Horizon

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

• Specimens housed at the Paleontological Science Institute (PIN). Collection N° 132. Collected by A. P. Ivanova (1936), A. N. Sokol'skaya (1949, 1950, 1952) and E. A. Ivanova (1958).

Primary reference: A. Afanasjeva. 1975. Chonetacea (Brachiopoda) from the Middle and Upper Carboniferous of the Russian platform. Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal 1975(2):96-113 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49967: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 03.05.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Exochorhynchus curtus n. sp.1 Astaf'yeva-Urbaytis 1981 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetinella uralica Moeller 1862
139 specimens at this and three other localities
Lissochonetes geinitzianus Waagen 1884
40 specimens at this and one other locality
 Productida - Productidae