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)

• Volkhov stage; Paroistodus originalis conodont zone [JA: reassigned to the Dapingian because the triangularis zone is mid-Dapingian]; Paroistodus originalis – Microzarkodina parva & Megistaspis simon zones.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Egerquist. 2003. New brachiopods from the Lower-Middle Ordovician (Billingen-Volkhov stages) of the East Baltic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(1):31-38 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62340: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2006, edited by Pete Wagner

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