Dzhanda Section. Pestrotsvet Formation, base of Sunnagin Member (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (57.7° N, 131.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.9° S, 17.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sunnagin Member (Pestrotsvet Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• Aldanocyathus sunnaginicus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic marl

• dolomitic marl (from key)

Size class: macrofossils

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50368: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
Hyolithellus tenuis Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
Fomitchella
  -
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Tiksitheca licis, "Anabarites ternarius" = Selindeochrea ternaria
Tiksitheca licis Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
"Anabarites ternarius" = Selindeochrea ternaria Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida -
Turcutheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
Purella cristata
  - Maikhanellidae
Purella cristata Missarzhevsky 1974
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae