Mjatschkowa (Nikitin collection) (Carboniferous of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (55.3° N, 38.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.7° N, 29.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peski Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Limestone with Spirifer mosquensis

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by S. Nikitin

Primary reference: A. Karpinsky. 1899. Ueber die Reste von Edestiden und die neue Gattung Helicoprion. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Russischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg, Zweite Series 36:1-111 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149417: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Eugeneodontiformes - Edestidae
Edestus minusculus n. sp. Hay 1909 chimaera