Where: Russian Federation (54.3° N, 85.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 14.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Salairka Beds Member (Salairka Horizon Formation), Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
• Here are the subdivisions of the Telengitian Stage in type locality. Authors correlate stage roughly with Emsian, but note that the Salairka Horizon is said to correlate with the dehiscens Zone, which, according to Harland et al. 1990 is Pragian.
•JA: the dehiscens zone is actually early Emsian
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•Telengitian Stage Shanda Horizon Upper Shanda Beds c.partitus/c.patulus Zone
•Telengitian Stage Shanda Horizon Middle Shanda Beds serotinus Zone
•Telengitian Stage Shanda Horizon Lower Shanda Beds P.n.sp./inversus Zone
•Telengitian Stage Belovo Horizon gronbergi Zone
•Telengitian Stage Salairka Horizon Upper Salairka Beds dehiscens Zone
•Telengitian Stage Salairka Horizon Middle Salairka Beds dehiscens Zone
•Telengitian Stage Salairka Horizon Lower Salairka Beds dehiscens Zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; reef rocks and limestone
•A: "consists mainly of biogenic-clastic limestone."
• A1: "coral limestones interbedded with siltstones and mudstones containing plant remains"
• A2: "massive reefal limestones" / "biogenic-clastic limestones, locally with coral bioherms"
•B: "composed chiefly of mudstones"
• B1: "interbedded with limestones and richly fossiliferous"
• B2: "barren"
•C: "consists of bedded, platy, clayey limestones locally marked by traces of subaqueous slumping"
•D: "may be equated with a sandy-muddy member with abundant plant remains"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. A. Yolkin, R. T. Gratsianova, N. K. Bakharev, N. E. Izokh, A. Yu Yazikov, L. V. V'yushkova, V. A. Zheltonogova and N. M. Petrosyan. 1988. Facies and faunal associations of the Telengitian (Emsian) in its type locality. In N. J. McMillan, A. F. Embry, D. J. Glass (eds.), Devonian of the World, Volume III 193-207 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35711: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 05.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Conodonta | |
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont | |
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont | |
Pandorinellina sp. Müller and Müller 1957 conodont | |
Osteichthyes | |
Dipnoi indet. lungfish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"? Bradyodonti indet." = Holocephali
"? Bradyodonti indet." = Holocephali Bonaparte 1832 chimaera | |
Nostolepis "sp. A" Pander 1856 spiny fish
Nostolepis sp. Pander 1856 spiny fish
Cheiracanthoides comptus Wells 1944 spiny fish | |
Acanthodes ? dublinensis spiny fish | |
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch | |
Crossopterygii indet. Huxley 1861 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaenopyxis bouei Barrande 1848 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Ostracoda | |
Coeloenellina testata ostracod | |
Moorites gurjevskiensis ostracod | |
Saumella salairica ostracod | |
Healdia parva ostracod | |
Bairdia proba ostracod
Bairdia navicula ostracod
Bairdia mucronata ostracod
Bairdia subsingularis ostracod | |
Praepilatina "sp. 1" Polenova 1970 ostracod
Bairdiocypris acra ostracod
Bairdiocypris operosus ostracod
Orthocypris regula ostracod | |
Rishona "sp. 1" ostracod | |
Microcheilinella ventrosa ostracod
Microcheilinella ex gr. larionovae ostracod | |
Hanaites "sp. 1" ostracod
Parabolbina "sp. A" ostracod | |
Miraculum tuberculatum ostracod
Miraculum omraensis ostracod | |
Newsomites notabilis ostracod | |
? Evlanella "sp. 1" ostracod | |
Aparchitellina propria ostracod | |
Clavofabellina "sp. 1" ostracod | |
Geisina vjasovskiana, "Uchtovia kusnezkiensis" = Sargentina
Geisina vjasovskiana ostracod
"Uchtovia kusnezkiensis" = Sargentina ostracod | |
"Marginia lobanovensis" = Tambovia
"Marginia lobanovensis" = Tambovia ostracod | |
Libumella inornata ostracod | |
Cavellina indistincta ostracod | |
Anthozoa | |
Dendrostella columnaris horn coral | |
Fasciphyllum gorskii horn coral | |
Lyrielasma denticulata horn coral |