Malaya Tes' River, Batenevskiy Ridge, unit 7 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3777

Where: Khakasiya, Russian Federation (54.2° N, 90.8° E: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Usa Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• sample 64,67,69, 60 m thick, Sanashtykgol stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• small calcimicrobial-archaeocyathan bioherms

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 81326: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
"Flindersicyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus
"Flindersicyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
 Kazachstanicyathida - Altaicyathidae
Altaicyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
"Archaeolynthus unimurus" = Archaeolynthus, "Rhabdocyathella baileyi" = Archaeolynthus
"Archaeolynthus unimurus" = Archaeolynthus archaeocyath sponge
"Rhabdocyathella baileyi" = Archaeolynthus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Vologdinocyathidae
Syringocyathus aspectabilis archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Erbocyathidae
Erbocyathus ex gr. hetervallum archaeocyath sponge
Ladaecyathus laevus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Zonacyathus vermiculatus archaeocyath sponge
Irinaecyathus cf. amsassense archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Botomocyathidae
Botomocyathus ex gr. zelenovi archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Uralocyathellidae
"Uralocyathella sp." = Rhabdolynthus
"Uralocyathella sp." = Rhabdolynthus archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Cryptoporocyathidae
Capsulocyathus subcallosus archaeocyath sponge
Capsulocyathus irregularis archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Clathricoscinidae
Clathricoscinus infirmus archaeocyath sponge
Clathricoscinus dentatus archaeocyath sponge
Clathricoscinus sanaschtykgolensis n. sp. Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge