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

Where: Kemorovo, Russian Federation (56.0° N, 88.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.1° S, 7.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Poliellaspis trilobite zone, Unit XIII Member (Usa Formation), Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• Stage: Botoman; Regional stage: Sanashtykgol; Poliellaspis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Unit XIII 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 57021: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
  - Utiidae
Chondragraulina ovalis
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Poliellaspis aff. sayanica
 Corynexochida - Edelsteinaspididae
Alacephalus sp., Labradoria sp., Laticephalus firmus, Laticephalus verrucosus
Alacephalus sp. Repina 1960 trilobite
Labradoria sp. Resser 1936 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dinesidae
Botomella cf. ekaterinae, Botomella convexa, Erbiopsidella tepida
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia aff. asiatica
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Sanaschtykgolia sp., Shivelicus cf. rarus, Miranella sp., Bonnaspis sp., Abakania crassa
Sanaschtykgolia sp. Poletaeva 1960 trilobite
Miranella sp. Pokrovskaya 1960 trilobite
Bonnaspis sp. Resser 1936 trilobite
Abakania crassa trilobite