Where: Tatarstan, Russian Federation (54.9° N, 52.3° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 29.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mikhailov Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• coral zone D2 (Dibunophyllum), Mikhailov and Venev Formations

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: M. S. Altmark. 1970. Rol korallov v biostratigrafii nizhnekamennougolnykh otlozheniy Tatarii [The biostratigraphic significance of corals from the Lower Carboniferous of Tatar]. in Zakonomernosti rasprostraneniya paleozoyskikh korallov SSSR [Distribution and sequence of Paleozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (3)90-93 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78863: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.02.2008

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