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

Also known as Reef 2537

Where: Sverdlovskaya Oblast, Russian Federation (61.3° N, 60.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 13.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toshem Formation, Pragian to Pragian (412.3 - 402.5 Ma)

• Upper Pragian-basal Emsian, Neospirigerina ossa-Losvia operosa superzone, Leviconchidiella vetusta-Totia similis zone [JA: originally entered as Pragian to Emsian]

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• massive reefal limestones, 450 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 81794: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.07.2008