Otvorot River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 16 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (60.2° N, 137.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 9.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kuranakh Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• 10 m thick, Lower Tayakh 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 79453: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites ex gr. favosiformis Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Paleofavosites schmidti tabulate coral