Kazyr River, Eastern Sayan, unit 5 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Russian Federation (53.8° N, 93.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 6.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• sample 1829, 1832, 400 m thick, Sanashtykgol 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 81336: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Shiveligocyathidae
Shiveligocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
"Archaeocyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus, "Claruscyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus
"Archaeocyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
"Claruscyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
 Kazachstanicyathida - Altaicyathidae
Altaicyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Erbocyathidae
Ladaecyathus limbatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Irinaecyathus aspectabilis archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tercyathidae
Tercyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Uralocyathellidae
"Uralocyathella bullata" = Rhabdolynthus
"Uralocyathella bullata" = Rhabdolynthus archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Clathricoscinidae
Clathricoscinus infirmus archaeocyath sponge