ammonites
Shubartau bioherm, Southern Urals, Parapugnax beds (Devonian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 367

Where: Orenburgskaya Oblast, Russian Federation (51.8° N, 59.1° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° N, 23.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Solonchatskaya Formation, Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)

• Parapugnax shubartauensis beds, Lower Frasnian, sample 92

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-stromatoporoid bioherm

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Stepanova. 1990. Brakhiopody opornogo razreza pogranichnykh otlozhenii srednego i verkhnego Devona na vostochnom sklone Yuzhnogo Urala [Brachiopods from the reference section of the Middle/Upper Devonian boundary deposits on the eastern slope of the Southern Urals]. Ezhegodnik Vsesoyuznogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva 33:79-93 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83919: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.09.2008