The first Silurian chitinozoans from Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic

The chitinozoan Conochitina aff. emmastensis Nestor, 1982 has been identified from the Silurian Telychian Stage, Llandovery Series, of Severnaya Zemlya, the Russian Arctic. Its presence suggests an early to late Telychian age for the strata, which is in accordance with previous biostratigraphic dating based on graptolites and conodonts.