Also known as Reef 3755
Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (60.8° N, 125.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 14.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pestrotsvet Formation, Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)
• Dokidocyathus regularis zone, Lapworthella bella subzone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified rudstone and lithified grainstone
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 80813: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Archaeocyatha | |
Okulitchicyathus discoformis archaeocyath sponge
Cambrocyathellus tschuranicus archaeocyath sponge | |
Archaeolynthus polaris archaeocyath sponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
Protospongiidae indet. Hinde 1887 glass sponge |