Vedi River, 1.5 km below River Aksu, Gnishik Horizon (Permian of Armenia)

Where: Armenia (39.9° N, 44.9° E: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 41.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gnishik Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and T. G. Sarycheva. 1965. The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 108:1-431 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113803: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Staffellidae
Staffella suborientalis n. sp. Rosovskaya 1965
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Araxoporidae
Paralioclema minax2 Morozova 1965
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Neochonetes armenicus Sokolskaja 1965
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Cryptospirifer iranica" = Cryptospirifer omeishanensis1
"Cryptospirifer iranica" = Cryptospirifer omeishanensis1 Huang 1933