Where: Russian Federation (43.9° N, 40.7° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° S, 55.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Urushten Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Late Changhsingian; Cathaysia-Chonetella assemblage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "antibiohermal" assemblage, lower diversity of brachiopods

Primary reference: G. V. Kotlyar, Y. D. Zakharov, and I. V. Polubotko. 2004. Late Changhsingian fauna of the northwestern Caucasus Mountains, Russia. Journal of Paleontology 78(3):513-527 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60739: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.05.2006

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