53.5 m, Khanda suite, Kirenga River right bank, 7 km N. of Klyuchi Village (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Lower fossil bed, 53.5 m above base of Khanda suite on right bank of Kirenga River, 7 K above village of Klyuchi and 1.5 K above Ayakchia Creek.

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (54.9° N, 100.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 5.3° N, 26.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Mansiysk Formation, Dolgellian (490.2 - 486.9 Ma)

• Upper Shidertinian in Siberian scale

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous conglomerate and gray, green limestone

• calcareous breccia conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collection methods: Trilobite and brachiopod given only as genera. It seems that this is the first paper documenting fossils from this outcrop.

Primary reference: S. N. Rozov. 1968. A new genus of Late Cambiran mollusks of the Class Monoplacophora (Southern Part of the Siberian Platform). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 183(6):214 (1427)-217 (1430) [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39399: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Tergomya
 Kiringellida - Hypseloconidae
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Tetralobulidae
Tetralobula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936