Avush Gorge, Gnishik Gorizont: Wordian, Azerbaijan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
1 specimen
Campi et al. 2005
Wellerella arthaberi (Tschernyschew 1914)
6 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Gillediidae
Notothyris nucleolus (Kutorga 1842)
4 specimens
Smirnova 2007
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
3 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
12 specimens
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae
1 specimen
Corrected from Orthotetina
Strophomenata - Productida
16 specimens
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
6 specimens
(1 measurement)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
2 specimens
22 specimens
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Septopora lineata Nikiforova 1933
Morozova 1970 2 specimens
Schwagerinidae
Boultoniidae
Dunbarula sp. Ciry 1948
Verbeekinidae
Schwagerinidae
Polydiexodina darwasica Dutkevich 1939
Staffellidae
Rhodophyceae
Rhodophyceae - Gymnocodiaceae
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
see common names

Geography
Country:Azerbaijan
Coordinates: 39.6° North, 45.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.0° South, 52.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Wordian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
Key time interval: Wordian
Age range of interval: 266.9 - 264.28 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gnishik
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:82115
Authorizer:M. Clapham, B. Allen Enterer:M. Clapham, B. Allen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-07-23 12:32:20 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-23 12:32:20
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
27321. V. E. Ruzhentsev and T. G. Sarycheva. 1965. The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 108:1-431 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

27577 M. J. Campi, G. R. Shi, and M.S. Leman. 2005. Guadalupian (Middle Permian) brachiopods from Sungai Toh, a Leptodus Shale locality in the central belt of peninsular Malaysia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 273(3-6):97-160 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
27323 I. P. Morozova. 1970. Mshanki Pozdnei Permi. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 122:1-346 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
27328 T. N. Smirnova. 2007. Permian terebratulids of Eurasia: morphology, systematics, and phylogeny. Paleontological Journal 41(7):707-813 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]