Tsakhirin-Khuduk, Gobi Altay - Layer 5 (Devonian of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (44.5° N, 100.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 34.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• late Early Devonian; Yushnogobiyskiye Layer, Fossils were collected from layer 5 (15m thick).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: V. L. Klishevich and T. T. Sharkova. 1983. Pervye nakhodki dakriokonarid v devonskikh otlozheniyakh yuzhnoy Mongolii (Gobiyskiy Altay, Vostochnaya Gobi). The first finds of Dakriokonaridae in the devonian deposits of the south Mongolia (Gobi Altai, East Gobi). Trudy - Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 20:41-45 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46019: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 19.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora compacta Tchudinova 1959 tabulate coral
subsp. minima
 Favositida - Alveolitidae