Kozhym River, Pripolyarnyy Ural (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Where: Komi, Russian Federation (65.7° N, 59.5° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 4.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)

• Upper Wenlock

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: S. I. Strelnikov. 1971. Znacheniye rugoz dlya stratigrafii siluriyskikh otlozheniy Pripolyarnogo Urala i gryady Chernysheva [Stratigraphy significance of rugose corals from Silurian deposits of the polar Urals and the Chernysheva ridge]. in Rugozy i stromatoporoidei paleozoya SSSR [Paleozoic Rugosa and Stromatoporoidea of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (2)71-88 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78958: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lykophyllidae
 Stauriida - Halliidae