Yakutia, Olenek area, Dzhelinda Creek, Siberian Plat. - Solov'yev 1988 (Cambrian to of Russian Federation)

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (68.5° N, 112.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° S, 5.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: upper portion of Paradoxides sacheri-Tomagnostus fissus zone, Solvan to Solvan (510.2 - 499.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone and lithified shale

• General lithology: bituminous limestones and black shales. The lithology information for the area is from the International Commission on Stratigraphy -- URL: http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/palaeontologie/Stuff/casu17.htm

Collection methods: The trilobite species described characterize the Yudoma-Olenek region, yet many of the localities are in other well studied facies regions that have specific lithologies and paleo-environments as determined by the International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy.

Primary reference: I. A. Solov''yev. 1988. New Cambrian trilobites from the Northern Siberian Platform. Paleontological Journal 21(2):55-63 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10003: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 07.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Anomocaridae
Forchhammeria dzhelindensis n. sp.
Forchhammeria dzhelindensis n. sp. trilobite
5 cranidia