Sukharikha River, section 10, bioherm (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 2799

Where: Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Russian Federation (67.2° N, 87.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 0.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• uppermost 2 m of unit 3, uppermost Sukharikha Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Renalcis bioherm

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. A. Luchinina, I. V. Korovnikov, D. P. Sipin and A. V. Fedoseev. 1997. Upper Vendian-Lower Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Sukharikha River section (Siberian Platform). Russian Geology and Geophysics 38(8):1385-1397 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80840: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Orthothecimorpha
 Circothecida -
 Circothecida - Turcuthecidae
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Conotheca mammilata Rozanov et al. 1969
 Orthothecida - Allathecidae
Allatheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969