Mud mound at Putilovo Quarry, section 13, sample 6, Volkhov Stage (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 2580

Where: Russian Federation (59.9° N, 31.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° S, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paroistodus originalis conodont zone, Zheltjaki Member (Volkhov Formation), Volkhov (471.1 - 469.2 Ma)

• Paroistodus originalis conodont zone [JA: reassigned to the Dapingian because the triangularis zone is mid-Dapingian]

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified claystone

• microbial mud mound
• the upper of two thick clay lenses; the clay contains abundant carbonate noduls and fossil fragments

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: T. Tolmacheva, P. Fedorov, and E. Egerquist. 2003. Conodonts and brachiopods from the Volkhov Stage (Lower Ordovician) microbial mud mound at Putilovo Quarry, north-western Russia. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 50(1):63-74 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61797: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae
 Orthida - Productorthidae
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
Paurorthis parva Pander 1830
Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Paroistodus originalis Sergeeva 1963 conodont
Drepanoistodus forceps Lindström 1955 conodont
Drepanoistodus basiovalis Sregeeva 1963 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Cornuodontidae
Cornuodus longibasis Lindström 1955 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Acanthodontidae
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
"Scolopodus rex" = Scolopodus striatus Pander 1856 conodont
Protopanderodus rectus Lindstrom 1955 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Trapezognathus quadrangulum Lindström 1955 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
 Ozarkodinida -