Sukhoy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 13 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3715

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (63.4° N, 136.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 14.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Khandyg Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• 26 m thick, upper Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-stromatoporoid bioherm

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 79419: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon nikiforovae
Ecclimadictyon nikiforovae stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites ex gr. catenularius
Halysites ex gr. catenularius Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Mesosolenia festiva
Mesosolenia festiva tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites ex gr. borealis