Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (57.3° N, 131.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.6° S, 17.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Purella antiqua small shelly zone, 4 Member (Ust-Yudoma Formation), Manykaian (538.8 - 529.0 Ma)

• Puerella antiqua zone; given as Vendian but Gubanov & Peel say N-D (basal Cambrian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: V. V. Khomentovsky and G. A. Karlova. 1993. Biostratigraphy of the Vendian-Cambrian beds and the lower Cambrian boundary in Siberia. Geological Magazine 130(1):29-45 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 50318: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.05.2005

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