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Table 3. Correlation of Middle/Upper Carboniferous fusulinids in Eurasia and North America

Eurasia North America
Rauserites quasiarcticus
(Dorogomilovian)
MS-1 First zone of Triticites and Eowaeringella
Montiparus montiparus
(Khamovnichenian)
DS-5,4 Upper zone of Fusulina and lower zone of Fusulina
Protriticites pseudomontiparus-
Obsoletes obsoletus (Krevyakinian)
DS-2b,3 Middle-Upper zone Beedeina and Upper zone of Wedekindellina
Protriticites ovatus-
Praeobsoletes burkemensis

(late Moscovian, late Myachkovian)
DS-1b,2a Lower zone of Beedeina:
Beedeina eurytensis, B. leei, B. pumila
Fusulinella bocki (late Moscovian, early Myachkovian) DS-1a Lower zone of Wedekindellina:
Wedekindellina euthysepta, Fusulinella iowensis, F. matura