Tuvaella dichotomians Community (Silurian of Mongolia)
Where: Gobi Altai, Mongolia (44.9° N, 95.4° E: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 21.6° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, sandy limestone and lithified, gray limestone
• A moderately quiet water environment with a reasonably firm bottom.
• Gray, sandy, organogenic limestone interbedded with unfossiliferous, gray, dence, flinty limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K.H. S. Rozman. 1999. Silurian brachiopod communities of Mongolia. in A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson, eds., Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 164-176 [M. Foote/C. Simpson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13188: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Carl Simpson on 26.01.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• occurs with abundant, unstudied trilobites and ostracodes
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| unclassified | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Palaeofavosites porosus Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Mesofavosites akchokkensis tabulate coral | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
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ex gr. Howellella elegans Muir-Wood 1925 | |
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Plectatrypa imbricata Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
| Strophomenata | |