Novaya Zelmya, Elks Bay (Carboniferous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (66.2° N, 58.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• early Tournaisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Laboratory of Palaeontology, St. Petersburg University , St. Petersburg, Russia

Primary reference: A. Ivanov. 1999. Late Devonian - Early Permian chondrichthyans of the Russian Arctic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(3):267-285 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133363: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 10.09.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Phoebodontiformes - Phoebodontidae
Thrinacodus sp. St. John and Worthen 1875 elasmobranch
LP 6-36
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
LP 6-37
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Ctenacanthidae indet. Dean 1909 elasmobranch
LP 6-38