Where: Belarus (51.9° N, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° S, 15.8° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: varcus conodont zone, Stolin Member (Polotsk Formation), Early/Lower Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)
• Polotsk regional stage, equivalent to Aruküla-Burtnieki regional substages in Latvia and Estonia (Stolin beds equivalent to Koorküla/Härma regional substages of Burtnieki RS)
•Overlies late Eifelian Kastyukovichi RS
•Geminospora vulgata–Retispora archaeolepidophyta miospore zone
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandy mudstone and dolomitic marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. Mark-Kurik. 2000. The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus. In A. Blieck, S. Turner (eds.), CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 223:309-324 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 225886: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 07.06.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Osteichthyes | |
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Cheirolepis "sp. 1 Kar.-Tal." Agassiz 1835 ray-finned fish | |
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Dipnoi indet. lungfish | |
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Gyroptychius sp. M'Coy 1848 lobe-finned fish | |
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Glyptolepis sp. Agassiz 1843 lobe-finned fish | |
| Chondrichthyes | |
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Diplacanthus gravis spiny fish | |
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Devononchus concinnus Gross 1940 spiny fish | |
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Ptychodictyon rimosum Gross 1973 spiny fish | |
| Placodermi | |
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Coccosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 armour-plated fish | |
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Asterolepis sp. Eichwald 1840 armour-plated fish | |
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Rhynchodus sp. Newberry 1873 armour-plated fish | |
| Pteraspidomorphi | |
| Pteraspidomorpha | |
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Pycnosteus sp. Preobrajenski 1911 | |