ammonites
Bolshaya Usa River, Polar Urals, Russia (Devonian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 2246

Where: Russian Federation (67.4° N, 64.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 3.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ovinparma? Formation, Lochkovian (416.0 - 412.3 Ma)

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

• Mostly stromatolithic reef complex

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: coral data from one small horizon (22 cm thick) within the largely microbial reef.

Primary reference: A. I. Antoshkina. 1999. Origin and evolution of lower Paleozoic reefs in the Pechora Urals, Russia. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 47(2):85-103 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24015: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.07.2002