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Bryozoans and Brachiopods from the Famennian (Upper Devonian) of the Central Russian Platform

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In Lipetsk and Orel oblasts the sediments of the Zadonsk Regional horizon (Lower Famennian, Upper Devonian) have yielded two species of trepostome bryozoans (Leptotrypa lipovkiensis sp. nov. and Anomalotoechus promiscuus Lavrentjeva, 1974) and brachiopods belonging to the five orders that dominate the benthic association of this horizon. These bryozoans are characterized by high variability in colony growth habits and internal structures. Representatives of both invertebrate groups obviously developed under periodically changing conditions of the inner part of a shallow shelf.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to S.V. Moloshnikov for consultations on the characterization of the Gornostaevskii quarry and to L.A. Viskova and A.V. Koromyslova for critical reviewing of the manuscript.

Z.A. Tolokonnikova is grateful to the Paleontological Society International Research Program Sepkoski Grant 2016 (project no. 3000-16-62576-1) for supporting the research. Part of the work was performed according to the Russian Government Program of Competitive Growth of Kazan Federal University.

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    Z. A. Tolokonnikova

  2. Kazan Federal University, 420008, Kazan, Russia

    Z. A. Tolokonnikova

  3. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647, Moscow, Russia

    A. B. Pakhnevich

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Tolokonnikova, Z.A., Pakhnevich, A.B. Bryozoans and Brachiopods from the Famennian (Upper Devonian) of the Central Russian Platform. Paleontol. J. 53, 44–51 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030119010106

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