Alma River Limestone Block, Crimea (Permian of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (44.8° N, 34.1° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° S, 56.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marta Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Limestone blocks in younger accretionary complex

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. V. Boiko, G. V. Belyaeva, and I. T. Zhuravleva. 1991. Sphinktozoa Phanerozoya Territorii SSSR [Phanerozoic Sphinctozoa of the Territory of the USSR] 1-224 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81422: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
Vesicotubularia prima Belyaeva 1991 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia cf. salinaria Waagen and Wentzel 1888 demosponge