Lec-Elec River, Polar Urals, Russia (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 1718

Where: Russian Federation (67.1° N, 64.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.2° S, 7.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• Lower part of upper Ashgill

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, dolomitic bindstone

• Reef surface marked by mud cracks and pyrite impregnations.
• 500 m thick partly dolomitzed reef complex with microbial-algal boundstones. Cavern porosity

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. I. Antoshkina. 1996. Ordovician reefs of the Ural Mountains, Russia: A review. Facies 35:1-8 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 24299: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 05.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
  -
"Microbes" indet., ? Fistullella sp., Eoatenipora sp.
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
? Ortonella sp., Garwoodia sp., Hedstroemia sp.
? Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Garwoodia sp. Wood 1941
Hedstroemia sp. Rothpletz 1913
Rothpletzella
  -
Rothpletzella sp.
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp.
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Nuia
  -
Nuia sp.
Nuia sp. Maslov 1954
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp.
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet.
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet.
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
unclassified
  -
? Porifera indet.
? Porifera indet. Grant 1836