Where: Mongolia (46.6° N, 93.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° N, 24.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tsetseg Member (Khangay Formation), Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: L. N. Bolshakova and L. M. Ulitina. 1985. Stromatoporaty i biostratigrafiya nizhnego paleozoya Mongolii [Stromatoporata and biostratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 27:5-94 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79587: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
Helicelasma sp., "Grewingkia altaica" = Brachyelasma altaica, Streptelasma primum, Streptelasma cyrtum, Streptelasma ostrogothicum, Grewingkia parva
Helicelasma sp. Neuman 1969 horn coral
"Grewingkia altaica" = Brachyelasma altaica Tcherepnina 1960 horn coral
Streptelasma primum Wedekind 1927 horn coral
Streptelasma cyrtum Neuman 1969 horn coral
Streptelasma ostrogothicum Neuman 1969 horn coral
Grewingkia parva McLean 1974 horn coral | |
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Modesta gobiensis horn coral | |