Gorbiyachin River, Tavgi Member (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Krasnoyar, Russian Federation (67.5° N, 87.8° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° S, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tavgi Member (Kulyumbe Formation), Tavgian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Tavgi Member is 120 m thick

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: A. V. Rozova. 1968. Biostratigrafiya i trilobity verkhnego Kembriya i nizhnego Ordovika severo-zapada Sibirskoy Platformy [Biostratigraphy and trilobites of the Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of the northwestern Siberian platform]. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki, Sibirskoye Otdeleniye 36:1-195 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131343: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Parabolinoididae
Pesaiella obnixa Rozova 1964 trilobite
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Nganasanella interminata Rozova 1964 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichakephalidae
"Acidaspides borealis" = Brutonia borealis
"Acidaspides borealis" = Brutonia borealis Tchernysheva 1960 trilobite