Otvorot River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 11 (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (60.2° N, 137.1° E: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 5.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 10 m thick, Baraniy Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone

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 79445: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Mesofavosites ex gr. pulchrum Volkova et al. 1978 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805