M31/11, Chekurovka village, Biskeebit River mouth (near Lena River) (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (71.0° N, 127.5° E: paleocoordinates 20.3° S, 15.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Judomia trilobite zone, 7 Member (Tyuser Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Given as Middle Sub member by Skovsted; called Tyuserian formation in Rosanov et al. 1969 p. 37.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: glauconitic, gray, green, red limestone

• Interbedded platy brick red, dark pink, gray-green argillaceous glauconite-bearing limestones overpopulated with fossils.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Y. Rozanov, V. V. Missarzhevsky, N. A. Volkova, L. G. Voronova, I. N. Krylov, B.M. Keller, I. K. Korolyuk, K. Lendzion, R. Mikhnyar, N. G. Pykhova, and A. D. Sidorov. 1969. Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya [The Tommotian Stage and the Cambrian lower Boundary problem]. Trudy Geoligske Institut Leningrad 206:1-379 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56855: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.11.2005, edited by Sarah Tweedt

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Orthothecimorpha
 Circothecida -
Costatheca clinisepta Syssoiev 1960
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Sulcavitidae
Burithes elongatus Missarzhevskiy 1969
 Orthothecida - Allathecidae
 Orthothecida - Triplicatellidae
Triplicatella "sp. B"3 Conway Morris 1990
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca circumflexa Rozanov et al. 1969
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
Tannuella sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella lorenzi Kobayashi 1939
Bivalvia
 Fordillida - Fordillidae
"Fordilla sibirica n. sp." = Fordilla troyensis1
"Fordilla sibirica n. sp." = Fordilla troyensis1 Barrande 1881 clam
Not explicitly stated, but this is the only plausible bed given Krasilova's description.
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Hebediscidae
"Pagetiellus sp." = Delgadella
"Pagetiellus sp." = Delgadella Walcott 1908
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Triangulaspis sp. Lermontova 1940 trilobite
 Redlichiida -
Judomia dzevanovskii Lermontova 1951 trilobite
Mobergella
  - Mobergellidae
"Mobergella hexactina n. sp." = Mobergella radiolata2
"Mobergella hexactina n. sp." = Mobergella radiolata2 Bengston 1968
Discinella brastadi (part) of Rozanov et al.: however, it seems that it is only some of the specimens (PJW)
Discinella
  - Mobergellidae
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920