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

Also known as Reef 3784

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: Uyar Formation, Toyonian (512.9 - 510.2 Ma)

• sample 8-20,49, 60 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 81441: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
"Archaeocyathus erbiensis" = Archaeocyathus, "Retecyathus kuzmini" = Archaeocyathus
"Archaeocyathus erbiensis" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Retecyathus kuzmini" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Erbocyathidae
Erbocyathus heterovallum archaeocyath sponge
Erbocyathus obrutchevi archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Vologdinocyathidae
Syringocyathus aspectabilis, "Tegerocyathella borovikovi" = Vologdinocyathus, "Tegerocyathella diploperforata" = Vologdinocyathus, Tegerocyathella expansiva n. sp., "Larecyathus infinitus" = Vologdinocyathus infinitus
Syringocyathus aspectabilis archaeocyath sponge
"Tegerocyathella borovikovi" = Vologdinocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Tegerocyathella diploperforata" = Vologdinocyathus archaeocyath sponge
Tegerocyathella expansiva n. sp. Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
"Larecyathus infinitus" = Vologdinocyathus infinitus Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tegerocyathidae
Tegerocyathus karakolicus, "Alexandricyathus edelsteini" = Tegerocyathus
Tegerocyathus karakolicus Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
"Alexandricyathus edelsteini" = Tegerocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Irinaecyathus ratus archaeocyath sponge
Irinaecyathus grandiperforatus archaeocyath sponge
"Kandatocyathus kalleganovi" = Irinaecyathus kalleganovi Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
 Corynexochida - Dinesidae
Erbia sibirica trilobite
 Corynexochida - Edelsteinaspididae
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
  - Utiidae
 Redlichiida - Agraulidae
  - Aldonaiidae
 Ichnofossils -