Abstract
A diverse bryozoan fauna is described from two boreholes from the Kurgan Region, Russia, containing rocks of Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian-Viséan) age. The bryozoan assemblage includes 13 fenestellids and 5 rhabdomesines, of which one species is new: Pseudonematopora sibirica n. sp. The studied fauna shows the most similarity to the fauna of the southwest of Western Siberia and Kazakhstan, the Kuznetsk Basin of Russia, and the United States of America.
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The author is grateful to Dr. G. Mizens, Yekaterinburg for providing core samples and consultations on the regional geology. Many thanks to Dr. D. Ruban, Rostov-on-Don for constructive suggestions to improve the manuscript. Part of this study was funded by the Sepkoski Grant-2010 from the Paleontological Society. Dr. A. Ernst, Kiel and Dr. C. Reid, Christchurch are thanked for critically reading of the manuscript and for helpful comments.
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Tolokonnikova, Z. (2013). Early Carboniferous Bryozoans from Western Siberia, Russia. In: Ernst, A., Schäfer, P., Scholz, J. (eds) Bryozoan Studies 2010. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, vol 143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_26
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