Where: Ukraine (48.3° N, 39.8° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° N, 34.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)
• as with most Pennsylvanian sections in the Donets Basin, fine-grained sandstones, siltstones, shales, coal seams, and limestones alternate cyclically
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•a useful nomenclatural scheme specific to the Donets Basin was developed by Ukrainian geologists at the end of the nineteenth century. The Carboniferous sequence is divided into suites designated by letters. Capital letters refer to major marine limestones and numerals indicate stratigraphic order. Subordinate limestones with minor thickness overlying a major limestone are designated by a superscript numeral. Lower case letters indicate the coal seams of a suite, also with numbers for stratigraphic order.
•The Moscovian Stage in the Donets Basin comprises the upper part of the K (C low2 upper5 ) suite, the L (C low2 upper6) suite, the M (C low2 upper7) suite, and the lower part of the N (C low3 upper1) suite.
•The Izvarino section is continuosly exposed along the railway and ranges from limestone L (low4) to M (low1)
Environment/lithology: brown limestone
•L6 is overlain by a thick series of alternating dark shales intercalated with fine-grained sandstone beds less than 5 cm thick and thin coal seams.
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
• Wacke- and packstones: contain fusulinoideans, crinoids, ostracods, smaller foraminifera, auloporid corals, colonial corals, brachiopods, bivalves, algae (Ungdarella), and rare gastropods and trilobites.
•Upper part: coral boundstone
•uppermost: high diversity biotic association of smaller foraminifera (Bradyina, Endothyra, Climacammina), fusulinoideans, brachiopods, algae (Ungdarella, ?Pseudogyroporella sp.), ostracodes, trilobites, and rare bryozoans.
Collected in Okt. 1999
Primary reference: B. Fohrer, T.I. Nemyrovska, E. Samankassou and K. Ueno. 2007. The Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) Izvarino Section, Donets Basin, Ukraine: a multidisciplinary study on microfacies, biostratigraphy (conodonts, foraminifers, and ostracodes), and paleoecology. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):1-85 [B. Seuss/B. Seuss/B. Seuss]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 216039: authorized by Barbara Seuss, entered by Barbara Seuss on 04.12.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Chlorophyceae | |
? Pseudogyroporella sp. Endo 1959 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Ungdarella sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Foraminifera | |
Pseudostaffella (Pseudostaffella) compressa Rauser-Chernousova 1938 | |
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Climacammina sp. Brady 1873 | |
"Fusulinida indet." = Fusilinida
"Fusulinida indet." = Fusilinida Wedekind 1937 | |
Anthozoa | |
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Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Conodonta | |
Idiognathodus praeobliquus conodont
Idiognathodus izvaricus conodont
"Streptognathodus" transitivus conodont | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Ostracoda | |
Bairdiocypris sp. Kegel 1932 ostracod
Pseudobythocypris pediformis Knight 1928 ostracod | |
Bairdia aff. oklahomensis ostracod | |
Healdia aff. canyensis ostracod | |
? Macrocypris menardensis Harlton 1929 ostracod | |
Asturiella donbassica n. sp.
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Cavellina recta ostracod | |
Hollinella (Hollinella) granuloba n. sp., Hollinella (Hollinella) sp., Jordanites krasnodonensis n. sp.
Hollinella (Hollinella) sp. Coryell 1928 ostracod | |
Amphissites (Amphissites) cf. rugosus Girty 1910 ostracod | |
Moorites elongatus ostracod | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |