Baraniy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 20 (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (62.9° N, 138.1° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 5.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 64.25 m thick, upper Baraniy Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. N. Volkova, Y. Y. Latypov, and K. B. Khayznikova. 1978. Ordovik i silur Yuzhnogo Verkhoyanya (biostratigrafiya i paleontologiya) [The Ordovician and Silurian of the southern Verkhoyansk Range (biostratigraphy and paleontology)]. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki 381:3-219 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79501: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Palaeophyllum rugosum Billings 1858
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma duncani Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Nyctopora nicholsoni tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Agetolitidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Mesofavosites sp. Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
 Sarcinulida - Syringophyllidae
"? Coxia sp." = Calapoecia
"? Coxia sp." = Calapoecia Billings 1865 tabulate coral