Moyero River, section M6, bioherm (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3757

Where: Evenki, Russian Federation (68.6° N, 105.2° E: paleocoordinates 19.5° S, 6.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Retecoscinus zegebarti other zone, Kotuy Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed 1, sample 8219, R. zegebarti zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• archaeocyath-calcimicrobial bioherm

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: V. I. Bondarev and M. A. Minayeva. 1988. Arkheotsiaty i biostratigrafiya kotuyskogo gorizonta nizhnego kembriya Prianabarya [Archaeocyatha and biostratigraphy of the Lower Cambrian Kotuy Horizon of the Anabar region]. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki, Sibirskoye Otdeleniye 720:111-133 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80871: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

Khasaktidae
  - Khasaktidae
Khasaktia vesiculare
subsp. drosdovia
Archaeocyatha
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Retecoscinus retetabulae archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
Dokidocyathus lenaicus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
"Robustocyathus syssoevi" = Cambrocyathellus
"Robustocyathus syssoevi" = Cambrocyathellus archaeocyath sponge