Volkhov River near Simankovo, Zheltyaki member (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: St. Petersburg, Russian Federation (59.2° N, 30.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° S, 0.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Zheltyaki Member (Volkhov Formation), Dapingian (470.0 - 467.3 Ma)

• "B II β", in Popov et al.(2007)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• mud mound

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, E. Egerquist, and L. E. Holmer. 2007. Earliest ontogeny of Middle Ordovician rhynchonelliform brachiopods (Clitambonitoidea and Polytoechioidea): implications for brachiopod phylogeny. Lethaia 40:85-96 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192055: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 05.03.2018

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Gonambonitidae
Oslogonites sp. Öpik 1939
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Raunites janischewskyi Lessnikow 1924