Lena River, Titirikteekh Creek, biohermal facies (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3753

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (60.7° N, 124.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° S, 13.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dokidocyathus regularis other zone, Pestrotsvet Formation, Tommotian (530.0 - 520.0 Ma)

• Dokidocyathus regularis zone, Lapworthella tortuosa

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 45 m of bioherm-bearing strata, low biconvex to planoconvex mounds, 0.5-2.0 m in lenght and up to 0.5 m in height

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. D. Kruse, A. Y. Zhuravlev, and N. P. James. 1995. Primordial metazoan-calcimicrobial reefs: Tommotian (Early Cambrian) of the Siberian Platform. Palaios 10:291-321 [W. Kiessling/B. Bookhagen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80794: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Copleicyathidae
Spinosocyathus maslennikovae archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus translucidus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Okulitchicyathus discoformis archaeocyath sponge
Cambrocyathellus proximus archaeocyath sponge
Cambrocyathellus tschuranicus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Sakhacyathidae
Sakhacyathus subartus archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
Archaeolynthus polaris archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
? Erismacoscinus rojkovi archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Rotundocyathus spinosus archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus tkatschenkoi archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus vulgaris archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus virgatus archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus anabarensis archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus aldanicus archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus prosper archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus mirabilis archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulifungiidae
Sclerocyathus australis archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
Dokidocyathus regularis archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Cryptoporocyathidae
Cryptoporocyathus junicanensis archaeocyath sponge
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Protospongiidae indet. Hinde 1887 glass sponge
Anthozoa
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