Upper Devonian brachiopods from the core of the Kurgan-Uspenskaya-1 key borehole (south-western outlying areas of Western Siberia)

Abstract

Research subject. Brachiopods from the core of the Kurgan-Uspenskaya-1 parametric borehole. The borehole was drilled in the south of Western Siberia 80 km southeast of the Kurgan town. Brachiopods were collected at a depth of 1,525.4 m in the IV tectonic block (core interval 1,450–1,794 m) in the greenish-gray marls of the Famennian stage of the Upper Devonian.Materials and methods. The paleontological material is presented in the form of complete undamaged shells and individual valves of small- and medium-sized brachiopods. The safety of brachiopods makes it possible to determine their species and genera, sometimes in open nomenclature. The article provides a brief description of the available material.Results. 11 species of brachiopods of the subtype Rhynchonelliformea belonging to six orders and nine genera were identified. The following ten species were described: Orbinaria fallax (Pand.), Semiproductus amplus Bubl., Schuchertella sp., Dalejina? sp., Camarotoechia panderi (Sem.et Moell.), C. volucera Nal., Athyris tobolica Nal., Cleiothyridina tenuilineata (Row.), Cl. ex gr. pectinata (Sem. et Moell.), Retzia? sp. The presented information allows conclusions about the age of the sediments enclosing the brachiopods under study and expands the existing knowledge of both the composition of the Upper Famennian brachiopods of the basement of the south of Western Siberia and their geographical and stratigraphic distribution.Conclusion. An analysis of the stratigraphic distribution of the described brachiopods taking into account data on foraminifera allowed us to determine the age of the host rocks as the very top of the Famennian stage. The composition of the brachiopods allows these rocks to be correlated with coeval deposits of the East European Platform, Timan, the Urals, Kuzbass, the Gorny Altai, Kazakhstan and North America.