Where: Russian Federation (53.7° N, 56.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 43.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)

• "Carboniferous" in Murchison's scheme, probably earliest Permian today

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Roderick Murchison, Eduoard de Verneuil, Alexandre Keyserling in 1840

Primary reference: E. de Verneuil. 1845. Paléontologie. Géologie de la Russie d'Europe et des Montagne de l'Oural, Paléontologie 2(3):1-512 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117347: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.09.2011

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