Elets Horizon - (Section 6) Kamenka: Early/Lower Famennian, Russian Federation
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Cyrtospiriferidae
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Cyrtospirifer zadonicus
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Athyris sp.
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Trigonirhynchiidae
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Ripidiorhynchus griasicus
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Geography
| Country: | Russian Federation |
| Coordinates: | 52.4° North, 38.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.9° South, 18.8° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Late/Upper Devonian |
| Stage: | Famennian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Famennian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 372.20000 - 368.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: GENERAL LITHOLOGY: Limestone with common cephalopods. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, assumed to be lithified given facies and figured specimens. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No environmental data reported in text, but assigned on to carbonate indet. on the basis of facies. TECTONIC SETTING: No tectonic data reported in text. SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: Transgressive, based on regional sea-level curve of Fig. 1. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Various collectors possibly including the author, E.V. Sokiran. REPOSITORY: CNIGR (Chernyshev's Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia), and GIUS (Department of Earth Sciences, Silesian University in Sosnowiec, Poland). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COMPLETENESS: Certainly not exhaustive, only including key biostratigraphic taxa. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication using modern nomenclature. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 61965 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-07-08 21:34:15 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-07-08 21:34:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17927. | E.V. Sokiran. 2002. Frasnian-Famennian extinction and recovery of rhynchonellid brachiopods from the East European Platform. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(2):339-354 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |