Malaya Tes' River, Batenevskiy Ridge, unit 3 (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 44,50, 40 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 81322: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra agrandicaveata
Protopharetra agrandicaveata archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus extremus
Dictyocyathus extremus archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Tumuliolynthidae
Tumuliolynthus musatovi, Tumuliolynthus tubexternus
Tumuliolynthus musatovi archaeocyath sponge
Tumuliolynthus tubexternus archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
Archaeolynthus sibiricus
Archaeolynthus sibiricus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Asterocyathus sp.
Asterocyathus sp. Vologdin 1940 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
Dokidocyathus sp.
Dokidocyathus sp. Taylor 1910 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
Degeletticyathus sp., Baikalocyathus sp.
Degeletticyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Baikalocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Rotundocyathus cf. proscurjakovi, "Nochoroicyathus mariinskii" = Nochoroicyathus, Nochoroicyathus fragilis, "Aldanocyathus polyseptatus" = Nochoroicyathus, Orbicyathus mongolicus, Orbicyathus sp.
"Nochoroicyathus mariinskii" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus fragilis Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus polyseptatus" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
Orbicyathus mongolicus archaeocyath sponge
Orbicyathus sp. Vologdin 1937 archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus cornucopiae
Coscinocyathus cornucopiae archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Alataucyathidae
Alataucyathus sp.
Alataucyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Tomocyathidae
"Tomocyathus sp." = Coscinocyathella
"Tomocyathus sp." = Coscinocyathella archaeocyath sponge
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp.
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886