Malaya Tes' River, Batenevskiy Ridge, unit 2 (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 26-43, 80 m thick, Bazaikha stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• limestone breccia

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 81321: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
Archaeocyatha
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
Archaeolynthus sibiricus archaeocyath sponge
Archaeolynthus absolutus archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Tumuliolynthidae
Tumuliolynthus musatovi archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
"Nochoroicyathus mariinskii" = Nochoroicyathus, Nochoroicyathus fragilis, Nochoroicyathus diadromus, "Aldanocyathus amplus" = Nochoroicyathus, "Aldanocyathus speranskii" = Nochoroicyathus, "Aldanocyathus polyseptatus" = Nochoroicyathus, "Aldanocyathus chassactuensis" = Nochoroicyathus, "Aldanocyathus certus" = Nochoroicyathus, "Aldanocyathus difformis" = Nochoroicyathus, "Aldanocyathus cardinalis" = Nochoroicyathus, Rotundocyathus levigatus
"Nochoroicyathus mariinskii" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus fragilis Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus diadromus Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus amplus" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus speranskii" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus polyseptatus" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus chassactuensis" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus certus" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus difformis" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus cardinalis" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
Rotundocyathus levigatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulocyathidae
Tumulocyathus pustulatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
Dokidocyathus sp. Taylor 1910 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Kymbecyathidae
Urcyathus batiensis archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
"Robustocyathus neiburgianus" = Cambrocyathellus, "Robustocyathus ijizkii" = Cambrocyathellus, "Robustocyathus jenisseicus" = Cambrocyathellus
"Robustocyathus neiburgianus" = Cambrocyathellus archaeocyath sponge
"Robustocyathus ijizkii" = Cambrocyathellus archaeocyath sponge
"Robustocyathus jenisseicus" = Cambrocyathellus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus extremus archaeocyath sponge
Dictyocyathus tenuis archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Tomocyathidae
"Tomocyathus gini" = Coscinocyathella, "Tomocyathus kundatus" = Coscinocyathella
"Tomocyathus gini" = Coscinocyathella archaeocyath sponge
"Tomocyathus kundatus" = Coscinocyathella archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Alataucyathidae
Alataucyathus jaroschevitschi Zhuravleva 1955 archaeocyath sponge