Assel' River, Sample 1, Southern Urals, Bashkortostan (Carboniferous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (51.9° N, 56.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 38.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Alportian (322.8 - 321.8 Ma)

• Nm2a2 (corresponds to Alportian); Upper Namurian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray limestone

• fossils from Sample 1 were collected north of the Assel' River from dark gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1978. Namyurskii etap v evolyutsii ammonoidyey - Namurian stage, evolution of ammonoids. Trudyi paleontologicheskovo instituta 167:1-338 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67743: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 08.12.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Focus on ammonoidea.
Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Stenopronorites uralensis Karpinsky 1889 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae
Hudsonoceras proteum Brown 1841 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Delepinoceratidae
Proshumardites delepinei Schindewolf 1939 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Dimorphoceratidae
Glyphiolobus aff. sholakensis Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Homoceratidae
Homoceras asselicum n. sp. Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 ammonite
Homoceras haugi n. sp. Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 ammonite
P. h. haugi (114( and P. h. astrictum (24)