Trilobites from Kiya River section, Kuznetsk Alatau - Unit XIV (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: Rondocephalus trilobite zone, Unit XIV Member (Usa Formation), Botomian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Unit XIV 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 57022: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
 Corynexochida - Edelsteinaspididae
Laticephalus sp. Pokrovskaya 1959 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonnia venefica trilobite
Bonnaria sp. Lochman 1956 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Jakutidae
 Corynexochida - Dinesidae
Dinesus granulosus trilobite
ssp. granulosus and astrictus
Erbina certa trilobite
Chakasskinella sp. Repina 1964 trilobite
  - Atopidae
Atops korobovi trilobite
 Redlichiida - Redlichinidae
Tungusella sp. Repina 1960 trilobite
  - Utiidae
Chondragraulina sp. Pokrovskaya 1960 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Weymouthiidae
Serrodiscus sp. Richter and Richter 1941
 Agnostida - Calodiscidae
Neocobboldia sp. Rasetti 1952