Also known as Section 8
Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (70.7° N, 113.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 6.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kuonamkites trilobite zone, 5 Member (Kuonamka Formation), Solvan (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)
• Amgan stage of Siberian scale. Kuanamkites zone; "correlated with lower Stage 5 of IUGS"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by A. Kouchinsky, S. Bengtson in 1996
• Swedish Museum of Natural History
Primary reference: A. Kouchinsky, S. Bengtson, S. Clausen, A. Gubanov, J. M. Malinky and J. S. Peel. 2011. A middle Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Kuonamka Formation, northern Siberia. Alcheringa 35(1):123-189 [P. Wagner/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 110823: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 14.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida | |
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloriida indet. Walcott 1920 | |
Hyolitha | |
Protoconodonta | |
Protoconodonta indet. Landing 1995 | |
Microdictyon | |
Microdictyon sphaeroides Hinz 1987
Microdictyon robisoni Bengtson et al. 1986 | |
unclassified | |
"Lobopoda indet." = Lobopodia, Echinodermata indet.
"Lobopoda indet." = Lobopodia
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 | |
Edrioasteroidea | |
? Stromatocystites indet. Pompeckj 1896 | |
Conodonta | |
Gapparodus bisulcatus conodont | |
Amphigeisina danica conodont |