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Ecological Features of Echinoderm Distribution in the Latorp and Volkhov Regional Stages of the Lower and Middle Ordovician of the Leningrad Region

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The systematic composition and paleoecological distribution of echinoderms in the rocks of the Latorp and Volkhov regional stages of the Lower and Middle Ordovician of the Leningrad Region are reviewed. The basic types of soft-, firm-, and hardground echinoderm communities are reconstructed; the features of their formation and spatial and temporal variation are described.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to S.V. Rozhnov, V.B. Kushlina, G.V. Mirantsev, and other members of the Laboratory of Higher Invertebrates, Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; N.K. Semenov and S.S. Terentyev (St. Petersburg) for providing advice and assistance in collecting and processing the material, as well as to all other current and previous researchers of Ordovician deposits in northwestern Russia, both professional and amateur, whose collections and works served as the necessary sources of information for this summarizing article.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 18-04-01046A, as part of the basic research program “Evolution of the Organic World. Role and Influence of Planetary Processes.”

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Anekeeva, G.A. Ecological Features of Echinoderm Distribution in the Latorp and Volkhov Regional Stages of the Lower and Middle Ordovician of the Leningrad Region. Paleontol. J. 55, 1049–1062 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121090021

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