Tapsa River basin, Bolshoy Il'chir creek, Sections 207, 208, G. howelli zone (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3416

Where: Tuva, Russian Federation (51.9° N, 94.4° E: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 5.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Il'chir Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Gordonicyathus howelli, Bazaikha stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• white and red massive reefal limestones overlying the basal tuffconglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. V. Osadchaya and D. V. Kotelnikov. 1998. Archaeocyathids from the Atdabanian (Lower Cambrian) of the Altay-Sayan Foldbelt, Russia. Geodiversitas 20(1):5-18 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81249: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Loculicyathus membranivestites archaeocyath sponge
Loculicyathus voznesenskii Osadchaya and Kotelnikov 1998 archaeocyath sponge
Cambrocyathellus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Cambrocyathellus minutus archaeocyath sponge
Cambrocyathellus kundatus archaeocyath sponge
? Mikhnocyathus sp. Maslov 1957 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Copleicyathidae
Tabulacyathellus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Archaeopharetra marginata archaeocyath sponge