Where: Russian Federation (54.2° N, 39.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.7° N, 31.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Alyutovo Formation, Moscovian (314.6 - 306.9 Ma)

• Vereyskiy Horizon, Alyutovskaya Layer

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

• Specimens housed at the Paleontological Science Institute (PIN). Collections N° 202. Collected by A. P. Ivanova (1936), possibly also A. N. Sokol'skaya (1949, 1950, 1952). Material described by Ivanova 1952.

Primary reference: A. Afanasjeva. 1975. Chonetacea (Brachiopoda) from the Middle and Upper Carboniferous of the Russian platform. Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal 1975(2):96-113 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49965: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 03.05.2005