Trilobites from Kiya River section, Kuznetsk Alatau - Unit XII/1 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Kemorovo, Russian Federation (56.0° N, 88.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 6.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sajanaspis - Kameshkoviella trilobite zone, Unit XII/1 Member (Usa Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Sajanaspis-Kameschkoviella zone; Unit XII/1 = Subunits 1-6 in Zhuravleva et al. (1997)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• Unit XII represents bioherms, biohermal massifs.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. N. Repina, E. V. Romanenko, E. S. Fedjanina and T. V. Pegel. 1999. Trilobites from the Lower and Lowermost middle Cambrian of the Kiya river reference section (Kuznetsk, Alatau). Annales de Paléontologie 85(1):3-56 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57019: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Strenuella sp. Matthew 1887 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Palaeolenidae
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Poliellaspis sp. Lermontova 1940 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
 Corynexochida - Dinesidae
Erbiopsidella sp. Pokrovskaya 1959 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Edelsteinaspididae
Alacephalus sp. Repina 1960 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Hebediscidae
"Hebediscus lermontovae" = Dipharus
"Hebediscus lermontovae" = Dipharus