Gornostayevka quarry (Devonian of Russian Federation)

Where: Oryol Oblast, Russian Federation (52.4° N, 37.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 18.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: triangularis - crepida conodont zone, Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• Specimens of Jakubsonia livnensis gen. and sp. nov. were collected from the Gornostayevka locality situated within the limits of the upper part of the section within the Zadonskian Regional Stage (Moloshnikov 2001). This stage is correlated to the ?triangularis-crepida Zone of the Standard conodont scale (Alekseev et al. 1996).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: O. A. Lebedev. 2004. A new tetrapod Jakubsonia livnensis from the Early Femennian (Devonian) of Russia and palaeoecological remarks in the Late Devonian tetrapod habitats. Acta Universitatis Latviensis, Series Earth and Environment Sciences 679:79-98 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176223: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 02.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapodomorpha -
Jakubsonia livnensis n. gen. n. sp.
Jakubsonia livnensis n. gen. n. sp. Lebedev 2004 lobe-finned fish
PIN 2657/346 (holotype; interorbital part of the skull roof including frontals, anterior part of the parietals, and almost complete postfrontals)