Lingula-Tannuaspis Community, Tuva (Silurian to of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (51.0° N, 93.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 13.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Pridoli to Pridoli (423.0 - 391.9 Ma)

• Pridolian, Early Devonian. Khondergai Formation, Baital Formation, Tauganteli beds.

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and siltstone

• "Well-preserved and fragmented lingulids...articulated and disarticulated ostracodes...vertebrate scales and plates oriented parallel to bedding...mudcracks...Clearly a BA 1, probably intertidal, and also brackish-estuarine environment, as indicated by lingulids and vertebrates..."
• "...on bedding planes of red colored sandstone and siltstone...mudcracks present..."

Primary reference: E. V. Vladimirskaya and N. P. Kulkov. 1999. Silurian brachiopod communities of Tuva. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 545-548 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24785: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Lingula minima Sowerby 1839
Petromyzontida
 Cephalaspidiformes -
Gnathostomata
 Phlebolepidiformes - Katoporididae
Helenolepis sp. Karartajüté-Talimaa 1978
Chondrichthyes
  -
Elegestolepis sp. Karatajute-Talimaa 1973 cartilaginous fish