Kozhym River, Polar Urals, Russia (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3198

Where: Russian Federation (65.4° N, 60.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° S, 10.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ust'-Zyb Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• PJW: originally given as Kozhym; Ust'-Zyb is the Caradocian aged formation here.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

• 7 x 15 m reef in ramp setting, dominated by massive tabulate corals

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Antoshkina. 1998. Organic buildups and reefs on the Paleozoic carbonate platform margin, Pechora Urals, Russia. Sedimentary Geology 118:187-211 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24016: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 29.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida -
Nicholsonella sp.
Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Graptodictya sp.
Graptodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
Anthozoa
 Lichenariida - Lichenariidae
Lichenaria sp.
Lichenaria sp. Winchell and Schuchert 1895 tabulate coral
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Garwoodia sp.
Garwoodia sp. Wood 1941