Kamai (Permian of Russian Federation)

Where: Perm, Russian Federation (57.3° N, 57.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 45.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kamai Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• Kamai Fm, Lower Kungurian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Primary reference: S. V. Naugolnykh. 2017. Lower Kungurian shallow-water lagoon biota of middle Cis-Urals, Russia: towards paleoecological reconstruction. Global Geology 20:1-13 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 216642: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Carpolithes
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Carpolithes sp. Schlotheim 1820
Sphenopsida
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Paracalamites sp. Zalessky 1927
Walchia
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Walchia sp. Sternberg 1825
Tylodendron
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Tylodendron sp. Weiss 1870
Algites
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Algites sp. Seward 1894
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Chondrichthyes
 Petalodontiformes -
Petalodontiformes indet. Zangerl 1981 chimaera
Coelacanthimorpha
 Actinistia -
"Actinistia indet." = Coelacanthimorpha
"Actinistia indet." = Coelacanthimorpha lobe-finned fish
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam