Morkvashi type sections (Pechishchi & Karsnovidovo villages) (Permian of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (55.8° N, 48.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 42.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Perekhodnaya Member (Morkvashi Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Upper Kazanian beds.

•Morkvashi beds comprise Member H (Perekhodnaya ('Transitional') Member), with the overlying rocks being Urzhumian red-stones of the Sulitsa Formation (Nurgaliev et al. 2015)

Environment/lithology: coastal; dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. K. Nurgaliev, V. V. Silantiev, and S. V. Nikolaeva. 2015. Type and reference sections of the Middle and Upper Permian of the Volga and Kama River Regions: A Field Guidebook of XVIII International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian. 1-208 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197765: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 25.11.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Follows from Solodukho & Tikhvinskaya (1977), Esaulova (1998), Chalimbadja & Silantiev (1997), Silantiev et al. (2007) and Götz & Silantiev (2014)
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Ellisoniidae
Kamagnathus volgensis Chernykh et al. 2001 conodont
Osteichthyes
 Ganoidei -
Ganoidei indet. Agassiz bony fish
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Permonautilidae
Permonautilus cornutus Golowinsky 1868 nautiloid
Verkhnyi Uslon - Morkvashi index fossil
Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae
Goniasma sp. Tomlin 1930 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema fasgata snail
Verkhnyi Uslon - Morkvashi index fossil
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurotomaria subpenea" = Sokella subpenea Netchaev 1894 snail
Verkhnyi Uslon - Morkvashi index fossil
Baylea taylorianus snail
Verkhnyi Uslon - Morkvashi index fossil
Baylea thomsonianus snail
Verkhnyi Uslon - Morkvashi index fossil
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
"Natica minima" = Naticopsis minima
"Natica minima" = Naticopsis minima Brown 1839 snail
Pechishchi - Morkvashi index fossil
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912 nut clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
"Netschajewia alata" = Stutchburia, "Netschajewia oblongata" = Stutchburia, Netschajewia elongata
"Netschajewia alata" = Stutchburia clam
Pechishchi - Morkvashi index fossil
"Netschajewia oblongata" = Stutchburia clam
Pechishchi - Morkvashi index fossil
Netschajewia elongata Netschajew 1894 clam
Pechishchi - Morkvashi index fossil
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga consobrina Eichwald 1861 mussel
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pseudobakewellia sp. Noinsky 1913 oyster
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea konincki Geinitz 1848
Pechishchi - Morkvashi index fossil
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Stenoscisma sp. Conrad 1839
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
Beecheria sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Trepostomida indet. Ulrich 1882
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Orthothemosiidae
Glyptoasmussia exigua clam shrimp
Pechishchi - Morkvashi index fossil