Facies C, Middle Shanda Beds, type Telengitian (Gur'evsk area) (Devonian of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (54.3° N, 85.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Shanda Beds Member (Shanda Horizon Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 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: originally entered as Emsian; the serotinus zone is late Emsian

•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; argillaceous limestone

• Initiation of Telengitian marked by transgression, and termination by regression. Smaller cycles within the stage.
• Beds in type sections divided into a number of facies and subfacies:

•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 35720: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 05.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Material listed includes fish, plants, conodonts, ostracods, brachiopods, and rugose corals. Bryozoans, trilobites, tabulate corals, and crinoids are also known from these sections, but these have not been studied as completely and are not reported here.
unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
 Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
 Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Spiriferida - Elythynidae
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida -
 Palaeocopida - Hollinidae
 Palaeocopida -
 Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
 Palaeocopida - Pachydomellidae
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
 Palaeocopida - Lichviniidae
 Platycopida - Beyrichiopsidae
"Marginia lobanovensis" = Tambovia
"Marginia lobanovensis" = Tambovia ostracod
 Platycopida - Miltonellidae
 Platycopida - Knoxitidae
"Uchtovia kusnezkiensis" = Sargentina
"Uchtovia kusnezkiensis" = Sargentina ostracod
 Podocopida - Thlipsuridae
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Microcheilinellidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia crebta ostracod
? Bairdia "sp. A" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
 Podocopida - Acratiidae
 Podocopida -
Bairdiohealdites karcevae ostracod
listed as "Bardiohealdites"
 Leperditellocopida - Aparchitidae
Coeloenellina "sp. 1" Polenova 1952 ostracod
 Hollinocopida - Primitiopsidae
Placodermi
 Rhenanida - Asterosteidae
? Ohioaspis sp. Wells 1944 armour-plated fish
Chondrichthyes
 Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
 Climatiiformes - Climatiidae
Nostolepis "sp. A" Pander 1856 spiny fish
Cheiracanthoides "sp. A" Wells 1944 spiny fish
Cheiracanthoides comptus Wells 1944 spiny fish
 Elasmobranchii -
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch
 Gnathostomata -
Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Pandorinellina sp. Müller and Müller 1957 conodont
Polygnathus sp. Hinde 1879 conodont
"Polygnathus ling. bultyncki"
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Belodella sp. Ethington 1959 conodont