Lena River, Churan, interbiohermal facies (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 1830

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (60.8° N, 125.0° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 14.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pestrotsvet Formation, Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• Dokidocyathus regularis zone, Lapworthella tortuosa

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified grainstone and lithified wackestone

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 80807: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Crestjahitidae
Archaeocyatha
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
Archaeolynthus polaris archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Erismacoscinus rojkovi archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Nochoroicyathus mirabilis archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Okulitchicyathus discoformis archaeocyath sponge
Cambrocyathellus tschuranicus archaeocyath sponge
Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Protospongiidae indet. Hinde 1887 glass sponge