Malaya Tes' River, Batenevskiy Ridge, unit 1 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Khakasiya, Russian Federation (54.2° N, 90.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° S, 6.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Usa Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• sample T 16-25, 100 m thick, Bazaikha stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• massive limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. V. Osadchaya, L. N. Kashina, I. T. Zhuravleva and N. P. Borodina. 1979. Stratigrafiya i arkheotsiaty nizhnego kembriya Altaye-Sayanskoy skladchatoy oblasti [Lower Cambrian stratigraphy and archaeocyatha of the Altay-Sayan fold belt]. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki, Sibirskoye Otdeleniye 380:1-215 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81320: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
"Robustocyathus sp." = Cambrocyathellus
"Robustocyathus sp." = Cambrocyathellus archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
Archaeolynthus sp. Taylor 1910 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
Dokidocyathus sp. Taylor 1910 archaeocyath sponge
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886