Otvorot River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 24 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3716

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: Khandyg Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• 48 m thick, Upper Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-stromatoporoid biostromes

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 79461: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostromatidae indet. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Gephuropora infera Volkova et al. 1978 tabulate coral
Favosites ex gr. gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia ex gr. tortuosa Fritz 1937 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Helioplasmolites sp. Chekhovich 1955 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Vinculumtes migratum Khayznikova 1989 tabulate coral