Kayashkan River (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Sanashtygol' Horizon, Kayashkan River, Russia - Romanenko 1969

Where: Gorniy Altay Republic, Russian Federation (48.0° N, 90.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.7° S, 11.0° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sanashtykgol' Formation, Lenian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: Y.e. V. Romanenko. 1969. New trilobites from the Lower Cambrian of Gorniy Altay. Paleontological Journal 3(3):393-397 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10176: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 22.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Milaspis citiata trilobite
70 entire or incomplete dorsal shileds, bodies, cephalic shields, and cranidia
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Kooteniella sp. Lermontova 1940 trilobite
Bonnia sp. Walcott 1916 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dinesidae
Erbiopsis coangustus n. sp. trilobite