Where: Mongolia (50.1° N, 100.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 4.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lenian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)
• Solontsov and Obrutchev Horizons (late Early Cambrian in Repina et al (1964))
Environment/lithology: marine; black, gray limestone
Size class: microfossils
Primary reference: Y.u. I. Voronin, L. G. Voronova, and N. A. Drozdova. 1983. Arkheotsiaty i vodorosli nizhnego kembriya basseyna r. Egiyn-Gol (Severo-zapadnaya Mongoliya). The lower cambrian archaeocyatha and algae of the Egiin-Gol river basin (the North-West Mongolia). Trudy - Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 20:7-11 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45950: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.12.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bija | |
Bija sp. Vologdin 1932 | |
Kordephyton | |
Kordephyton sp. Radugin and Strepanova 1964 | |
Archaeocyatha | |
Irinaecyathus ratus archaeocyath sponge | |
Tegerocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Coscinocyathus sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge |