Sukhoy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 2 (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (63.4° N, 136.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.5° N, 4.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baraniy Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• 20 m thick, upper Baraniy Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone

• organogenic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. B. Khayznikova. 1989. Biostratigrafiya i tabulyaty biogermnykh otlozheniy rannego paleozoya; Yuzhnoye Verkhoyanye [Biostratigraphy and Tabulata of lower Paleozoic bioherm deposits; southern Verkhoyansk region] [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79409: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora pila n. sp. Khayznikova 1989 tabulate coral
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Eofletcheria sculpta n. sp. Khayznikova 1989 tabulate coral