ammonites
Articulate Brachiopods of the Sokol Beds, Malinovtsy Stage, Podolia (Silurian to of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (49.0° N, 25.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.5° S, 6.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sokol Beds Formation, Gorstian to Gorstian (422.9 - 418.7 Ma)

• From correlation chart in this paper: Correlation is upper Elton, Bringewood, and lower Leintwardine.

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone and argillaceous limestone

• Lithology based on symbols in illustrated section. Shown are: irregularly bedded limestones, irregularly bedded argillaceous limestones, and some biohers in the limestones.

Primary reference: O. I. Nikiforova, T. L. Modzalevskaya, and M. G. Bassett. 1985. Review of the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian articulate brachiopods of Podolia. Special Papers in Palaeontology (34)1-66 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14144: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 16.05.2002