Kabakhayal Mountain, Gnishik Formation (Permian of Armenia)

Where: Armenia (39.6° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 41.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gnishik Formation, Wordian (268.8 - 265.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113620: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Neochonetes armenicus Sokolskaja 1965
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Rhabdomeson floriferum Shishova 1964