Conodonts from the Upper Permian type strata of European Russia

Conodonts have been derived from the marine shallow-water deposits of the Kazanian Stage and contain the multielement species of Sweetina, Merrillina and Stepanovites. On the base of the occurrence of Sweetina triticum Wardlaw and Collinson, 1986 the Lower Kazanian substage may be compared with the uppermost Roadian and Lower Wordian deposits of North America. The Upper Kazanian substage containing Merrillina divergens? (Bender and Stoppel, 1965) and Stepanovites meyeni Kozur and Movsovic, 1975 may be correlated with the Upper Wordian, and possibly with the lowermost Capitanian