Sample 180, Bayan-Gol (Cambrian of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (47.0° N, 93.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 6.0° N, 39.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Salanygol Formation, Lenian (516.0 - 508.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• lithological description is not listed.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Collection consists of casts and shells of unknown composition. A considerable amount of the material studied was obtained from the samples of M. N. Korobov.

Primary reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky. 1980. Early Cambrian mongolian hyolitha and gastropoda. Paleontological Journal 15(1):18-25 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96494: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.06.2010

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Taxonomic list

Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Sulcavitidae
Lenalituus pusillus Missarzhevsky 1980
 Hyolithida - Nelegerocornidae
Microcornus elongatus n. sp. Missarzhevsky 1980