M418/419, Layer 16, Kotujkan River, leading to Kotuj River & above Bol’shaya Riv (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (71.0° N, 102.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.8° S, 6.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nochoroicyathus sunnaginicus zone, Koriliam Member (Medvezhyn Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• Kouchinsky & Bengston (2002) suggest Medvezhyn formation. Rowland et al. imply Krasnoporog formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, green, red limestone

• Dirty pink, greeenish-gray, pale violet, claret red argillaceous limestons

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: Full description in Vostokova 1962, Rozonav et al. 1968 p. 45

Primary reference: A. Y. Rozanov, V. V. Missarzhevsky, N. A. Volkova, L. G. Voronova, I. N. Krylov, B.M. Keller, I. K. Korolyuk, K. Lendzion, R. Mikhnyar, N. G. Pykhova, and A. D. Sidorov. 1969. Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya [The Tommotian Stage and the Cambrian lower Boundary problem]. Trudy Geoligske Institut Leningrad 206:1-379 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49687: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Hyolitha
 Orthothecida -
Turcutheca annae Syssoiev 1959
Turcutheca rugata Syssoiev 1959
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Aldanellidae
Aldanella sp. Vostokova 1962
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites tristichus Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
"Kugdatheca voluta" = Anabarites voluta Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
Cambrotubulus decurvatus Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
"Anabarites tripartitus" = Selindeochrea tripartita Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish