Lake Onega (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (61.6° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° S, 2.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Megistaspis limbata trilobite zone, Frizy Member (Volkhov Formation), Volkhov (471.1 - 469.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic, sandy limestone

• sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. A. Andreev. 1993. New Ordovician plectambonitacean brachiopods from Tuva and Leningrad Oblast. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1993:50-55 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185998: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Onegia vitrea n. gen. n. sp.
Onegia vitrea n. gen. n. sp. Andreev 1993