Uyar River, Bellykskoye Mountains, unit 3a (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3784

Where: Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Russian Federation (54.6° N, 91.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 0.1° N, 44.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Uyar Formation, Toyonian (512.1 - 508.2 Ma)

• sample 4-7,41, 40 m thick, Obruchev stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 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 81440: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Trilobita
  - Antagmidae
  - Aldonaiidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Eodiscidae
Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
"Archaeocyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus, "Archaeocyathus erbiensis" = Archaeocyathus, "Claruscyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus, "Retecyathus kuzmini" = Archaeocyathus
"Archaeocyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
"Archaeocyathus erbiensis" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Claruscyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
"Retecyathus kuzmini" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Vologdinocyathidae
Syringocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tegerocyathidae
Tegerocyathus abakanensis archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Irinaecyathus ratus archaeocyath sponge
Irinaecyathus grandiperforatus archaeocyath sponge
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea