Western Torgashino Ridge, unit 4 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3782

Where: Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Russian Federation (56.0° N, 92.9° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° S, 5.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Torgashino Formation, Toyonian (512.9 - 510.2 Ma)

• sample 37-39, 120 m thick, Obruchev 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 81436: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
  - Utiidae
Chondragraulos sp. Lermontova 1940 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Kootenia sp. Walcott 1899 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dinesidae
Erbia sibirica trilobite
 Corynexochida - Edelsteinaspididae
 Ichnofossils -
Granularia sp. Pomel 1849