Lena River, Oy-Muran (Kokoulinsk) bioherm complex, unit 8 interbiohermal facies (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 1745

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (61.0° N, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 13.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pestrotsvet Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. T. Zhuravleva. 1972. Rannekembriyskiye fatsialnyye kompleksy arkheotsiat (r. Lena, sredneye techeniye) [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath complexes (middle Lena River)]. in I. T. Zhuravleva, ed., Problemy biostratigrafii i paleontologii nizhnego kembriya Sibiri [Lower Cambrian biostratigraphical and paleontological problems of Siberia] 31-109 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81205: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus subarquathus archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Fransuasaecyathidae
Fransuasaecyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
"Robustocyathus sp." = Cambrocyathellus
"Robustocyathus sp." = Cambrocyathellus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Densocyathidae
Leptosocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Nochoroicyathus sp. Zhuravleva 1951 archaeocyath sponge
Ajacicyathus sp. Bedford and Bedford 1939 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Geocyathidae
"Geocyathus botomaensis" = Geocyathus, "Geocyathus sp." = Geocyathus, "Jakutocyathus sp." = Geocyathus
"Geocyathus botomaensis" = Geocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Geocyathus sp." = Geocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Jakutocyathus sp." = Geocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulocyathidae
"Tumulocyathellus platiseptatus" = Plicocyathus
"Tumulocyathellus platiseptatus" = Plicocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulocoscinidae
Tumulocoscinus atdabanensis archaeocyath sponge