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
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
Epiphyton | |
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886 | |
Archaeocyatha | |
Coscinocyathus cornucopiae archaeocyath sponge | |
"Tomocyathus sp." = Coscinocyathella
"Tomocyathus sp." = Coscinocyathella archaeocyath sponge | |
Alataucyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Archaeolynthus sibiricus archaeocyath sponge | |
Tumuliolynthus musatovi archaeocyath sponge
Tumuliolynthus tubexternus archaeocyath sponge | |
Dictyocyathus extremus archaeocyath sponge | |
Protopharetra agrandicaveata archaeocyath sponge | |
Dokidocyathus sp. Taylor 1910 archaeocyath sponge | |
"Nochoroicyathus mariinskii" = Nochoroicyathus, "Aldanocyathus polyseptatus" = Nochoroicyathus, Nochoroicyathus fragilis, Orbicyathus mongolicus, Orbicyathus sp., Rotundocyathus cf. proscurjakovi
"Nochoroicyathus mariinskii" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus polyseptatus" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
Nochoroicyathus fragilis Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
Orbicyathus mongolicus archaeocyath sponge
Orbicyathus sp. Vologdin 1937 archaeocyath sponge
Rotundocyathus cf. proscurjakovi archaeocyath sponge | |
Baikalocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Degeletticyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Asterocyathus sp. Vologdin 1940 archaeocyath sponge |