Vizhay River, Northern Urals, Sauma Horizon (Devonian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 2535

Where: Sverdlovskaya Oblast, Russian Federation (61.3° N, 60.2° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sauma Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Upper Lochkovian, Karpinskia vagranensis zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• massive reefal limestones, 250 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. A. Breyvel, M. G. Breyvel, G. G. Zenkova, V. S. Militsina, M. V. Shurygina and F. E. Yanet. 1977. Stratigrafiya [Stratigraphy]. in T. A. Gorokhova, ed., Biostratigrafiya i fauna rannego Devona vostochnogo sklona Urala [Biostratigraphy and fauna of the Lower Devonian from the Eastern Urals] 12-22 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81792: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Cymostrophia sp. Caster 1939
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Stropheodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Athyridida - Meristidae