Khos-Nelege, bed 50 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Sakha, Russian Federation (71.3° N, 127.6° E: paleocoordinates 11.8° S, 4.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lotagnostus americanus trilobite zone, Ogon'or Formation, Niuchehean (489.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• bed 50, ~372-385 m from the base of the section, Cambrian stage 10

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified wackestone and lithified marl

• distal slope environment (outer fan to basin transition)
• alternation of marl, argillite and lens-nodular wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: N. P. Lazarenko, I. Y. Gogin, T. V. Pegel and G. P. Abaimova. 2011. The Khos-Nelege section of the Ogon'or Formation: a potential candidate for the GSSP of stage 10, Cambrian System. Bulletin of Geosciences 86(3):555-568 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133624: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.09.2012, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Lotagnostus sp. Whitehouse 1936
Lotagnostus (Eolotagnostus) cf. agnostiformis Apollonov and Tschugaeva 1983