Level 8, east of Makedonivka (Carboniferous of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (48.2° N, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 5.5° N, 32.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mospyne Formation, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

• Apparently laterally replaced by the G4 limestone layer

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sideritic, black shale

• Black shale with siderite and siltstone interlayers.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: IGSU, Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of Palaeozoic Sediments in the Institute of Geological Sciences (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv).

Primary reference: V. Dernov. 2022. Late Bashkirian ammonoids from the Mospyne Formation of the Donets Basin, Ukraine. Fossil Imprint 78:489-512 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228674: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.12.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Gastrioceratidae
Gastrioceras angustum, Gastrioceras lupinum
Gastrioceras angustum Patteisky 1964 ammonite
Gastrioceras lupinum Popov 1979 ammonite
 Nautilida - Gzheloceratidae
Gzheloceras sp.
Gzheloceras sp. Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Metacoceras sp.
Metacoceras sp. Hyatt 1883 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp.
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia sp.
Phestia sp. Chernyshev 1951 clam
 Ichnofossils -
Chondrites sp.
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833