68b. Gribovaya Bay, 7 km, northwest of the head of Bessimyanni Fjord (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Novaya Zemlya, Russian Federation (73.0° N, 53.3° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 6.8° E)

When: Irvingella major trilobite zone, Karpinsk Formation, Iverian (494.0 - 489.5 Ma)

• Jiangshanian. (Why isn't that an official time interval???)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black, calcareous siltstone and sandstone

• Black argillites and siltstones with subsidiary sandstone and limestone beds,

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. E. Holmer, L. E. Popov, M. Ghobadi Pour, I. A. Klishevich, Y. Liang and Z. Zhang. 2020. Linguliform brachiopods from the Cambrian (Guzhangian) Karpinsk Formation of Novaya Zemlya. Papers in Palaeontology 6(4):571-592 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222974: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 31.10.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Orlovia "sp. undet." Walcott and Resser 1924 trilobite
Orlovia arctica n. sp. Walcott and Resser 1924 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Pesaia exsculpta n. sp., Irvingella arctica n. sp., "Irvingella septentrionalis n. sp." = Irvingella major
Pesaia exsculpta n. sp. trilobite
Irvingella arctica n. sp. trilobite
"Irvingella septentrionalis n. sp." = Irvingella major Ulrich and Resser 1924 trilobite
  - Changshaniidae
Kazelia speciosa n. sp. trilobite
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Billingsellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Huenellidae
Huenellina triplicata Walcott 1924
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Ocnerorthis cf. opius Walcott 1924
Eoorthis sabus Walcott 1924
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
 Lingulida - Obolidae