Where: Kalmykia, Russian Federation (45.3° N, 46.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° N, 43.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Clastic carbonate Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Middle part of the Clastic carbonate Formation. These sediments are more than 400 m thick.

Environment/lithology: marine; gray siltstone and mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. F. Mirchink, A. I. Letavin, L. M. Savel'yeva and N. T. Kopylov. 1974. Stroyeniye verkhnepermskikh i triasovykh otlozheniy Vostochnogo Predkavkaz'ya. Structure of upper Permian and Triassic sediments of eastern Cisaucasia. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 215(2):420-423 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46533: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.01.2005

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