Where: Yakutia, Russian Federation (61.1° N, 126.2° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° S, 12.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laticephalus - Erbiella trilobite zone, Oi-Muran Reef Massif Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• Sometimes given as part of the Pestrotsvet formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; dolomitic, gray, green, white limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

• All the fossils were chemically extracted from limestone rocks with buffered ca. 10% diluted acetic acid and represent shells in apatitic preservation.

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by Andrej Zhuravlev in 1981, 1987; reposited in the PIN

Collection methods: bulk, acetic,

• All the fossils were chemically extracted from limestone rocks with buffered ca. 10% diluted acetic acid and represent shells in apatitic preservation.

Primary reference: A. I. Varlamov, A. Y. Rozanov, V. V. Khomentovsky, YuYa Shabanov, G.P. Abaimova, YuE Demidenko, G. A. Karlova, I. V. Korovnikov, V. A. Luchinina, E. Ya Malakhovskaya, P. Yu Parkhaev, T. V. Pegel, N. A. Skorlotova, V. M. Sundukov, S. S. Sukhov, A. B. Fedorov, and L. D. Kipriyanova. 2008. The Cambrian System of the Siberian Platform. Part 1: The Aldan-Lena region 1-274 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174246: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.11.2015

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