Shara-Obo Mountains, Baruun-Urt, Eastern Gobi (Devonian of Mongolia)

Also known as Reef 1101

Where: Mongolia (46.7° N, 113.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 45.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shargynul Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• lower part of the formation

• group of beds-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: T. T. Sharkova. 1981. Siluriiskiye i devonskiye tabulyaty Mongolii [Silurian and Devonian Tabulata of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 14:5-104 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79695: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
 Styliolinida - Viriatellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Favositida - Oculiporidae
Oculipora angulata tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Pachypora tortuosa n. sp. Sharkova 1981 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites sharaobensis n. sp. Sharkova 1981 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge