Salaany Gol, CB bioherms, Zavkhan Basin, Mongolia (Cambrian to of Mongolia)

Also known as reef 2310

Where: Mongolia (46.9° N, 95.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Salaany Gol Formation, Atdabanian to Atdabanian (521.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Calcimicrobial bioherms (CB)

Primary reference: P. D. Kruse, A. Gandin, F. Debrenne and R. Wood. 1996. Early Cambrian bioconstructions in the Zavkhan Basin of western Mongolia. Geological Magazine 133(4):429-444 [W. Kiessling/B. Bookhagen/B. Bookhagen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22942: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Britta Bookhagen on 04.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Batinevia
  - Chabakoviacea
Batinevia sp. Korde 1966
Tubomorphophyton
  - Chabakoviacea
Proaulopora
  -
Proaulopora sp. Vologdin 1962
Botominella
  -
Botominella sp. Reitlinger 1959
Archaeocyatha
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulocyathidae
Plicocyathus stellatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Nochoroicyathus certus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulifungiidae
Sclerocyathus floridus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Agyrekocyathidae
"Mennericyathus shoriensis" = Agyrekocyathus
"Mennericyathus shoriensis" = Agyrekocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
Dokidocyathus tuvaensis archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Copleicyathidae
Spinosocyathus mongolicus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Archaeopharetra marginata archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus confertus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Okulitchicyathus sp. n. sp. archaeocyath sponge
Cambrocyathellus tuberculatus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida -
Dictyofavina indet. Debrenne 1991 archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Tumuliolynthidae
Tumuliolynthus tubexternus archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
Archaeolynthus solidimurus archaeocyath sponge
Khasaktidae
  - Khasaktidae
Hydroconozoa
  -
Radiocyatha
  - Hetairacyathidae
Girphanovella georgensis
disarticulated nesasters