Malyy Karakol River, Western Sayan, unit 4 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3785

Where: Khakasiya, Russian Federation (52.8° N, 90.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 8.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Monok Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• 100-150 m thick, Sanashtykgol stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• limestone unit intercalated in sandstones and tuffconglomerates

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 81443: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Ajacicyathida - Tercyathidae
Tercyathellus altaicus archaeocyath sponge
Tercyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Carinacyathidae
"Porocyathus sp." = Carinacyathus
"Porocyathus sp." = Carinacyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Clathricoscinidae
Clathricoscinus sp. archaeocyath sponge