Romashkin oil field, Protvin Formation (Carboniferous of Russian Federation)

Where: Tatarstan, Russian Federation (54.9° N, 52.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 30.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Protvin Formation, Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• coral zone E1

• 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 78867: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Koninckophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
Koninckophyllum interruptum Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
subsp. murchisoni
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
 Stauriida - Lonsdaleiidae
Lonsdaleia taveli horn coral
subsp. taveli
 Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
"Lonsdaleia multiseptata" = Praewentzelella multiseptata
"Lonsdaleia multiseptata" = Praewentzelella multiseptata Enderle 1901 horn coral