Level 4, 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)

• Situated directly above the sandstone in unit 3, 55 m below the G1-2 limestone layer

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale

• Black shale situated directly above the sandstone in unit 3

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 228669: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.12.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Pinopsida
 Cordaitanthales -
Cordaites sp. Unger 1850
 Radiatopses - Medullosaceae
Mariopteris sp. Zeiller 1879
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Calamites sp. Suckow 1784
Stigmaria
  -
Stigmaria sp. Brongniart 1822
Neuropteridae
  - Neuropteridae
Cyperites
  -
Cyperites sp. Lindley and Hutton 1832
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Polychaeta
  -
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Dimorphoceratidae
Anthracoceratites sp. Ramsbottom 1970 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Neodimorphoceratidae
Neodimorphoceratidae indet. Furnish and Knapp 1966 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae
Branneroceras "sp. A" Plummer and Scott 1937 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Phestia sp. Chernyshev 1951 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912 nut clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Sanguinolites sp. M'Coy 1844 clam
 Solenida - Solenomorphidae
Solenomorpha sp. Cockerell 1903 clam
 Pectinida - Euchondriidae
Euchondria sp. Meek 1874 scallop
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Posidoniella sp. Koninck 1885 clam
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Rhinocarididae
 Ichnofossils -
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
Phycosiphon sp. von Fischer-Ooster 1858
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833