Uyar River, Bellykskoye Mountains, unit 1 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Where: Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Russian Federation (54.6° N, 91.3° E: paleocoordinates 8.9° S, 6.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Balakhtison Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• sample 3,32-34, 240 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 81438: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Kutorginata
 Kutorginida - Nisusiidae
Nisusia sp. Walcott 1905
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Redlichinidae
Redlichina sp. Lermotova 1940 trilobite
Archaeocyatha
 Monocyathida - Sajanolynthidae
Sajanolynthus desideratus archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
"Rhabdocyathella cf. baileyi" = Archaeolynthus
"Rhabdocyathella cf. baileyi" = Archaeolynthus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Sibirecyathus dissepimentalis archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Erbocyathidae
Ladaecyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Putapacyathida - Chabakovicyathidae