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

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: Saraynin Formation, Lochkovian (416.0 - 412.3 Ma)

• Lower Lochkovian, Levigatella eleganta-Neospirigerina exima-Hebetoechia vagranica zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• 70 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 81791: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.07.2008