Egiin-Gol river basin (North-West Mongolia), Alag Erdeni (Cambrian of Mongolia)

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

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Taxonomic list

Bija
  - Chabakoviacea
Bija sp. Vologdin 1932
Kordephyton
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Kordephyton sp. Radugin and Strepanova 1964
Archaeocyatha
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Irinaecyathus ratus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tegerocyathidae
Tegerocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge