Malyy Karakol River, Western Sayan, unit 9 (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)

• 140 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 81446: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Archaeocyatha
 Ajacicyathida - Vologdinocyathidae
Syringocyathus sp.
Syringocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tegerocyathidae
Tegerocyathus ex gr. abakanensis, Tegerocyathus edelsteini
Tegerocyathus edelsteini archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Irinaecyathus ex gr. grandiperforatus, Irinaecyathus sp.
Irinaecyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Sibirecyathus sp.
Sibirecyathus sp. Vologdin 1937 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tercyathidae
"Tercyathus duplex" = Tercyathus, "Piamaecyathus flexuosus" = Tercyathus, Tercyathellus altaicus
"Tercyathus duplex" = Tercyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Piamaecyathus flexuosus" = Tercyathus archaeocyath sponge
Tercyathellus altaicus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Piamaecyathellidae
Piamaecyathellus similis
Piamaecyathellus similis archaeocyath sponge
 Putapacyathida - Alphacyathidae
"Aptocyathus gordoni" = Aptocyathus, "Aptocyathus sp." = Aptocyathus, "Aptocyathus vitilis" = Aptocyathus, "Aptocyathella prima" = Aptocyathus prima, "Galinaecyathus sp." = Aptocyathus, "Aptocyathella sp." = Aptocyathus
"Aptocyathus gordoni" = Aptocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Aptocyathus sp." = Aptocyathus Vologdin 1937 archaeocyath sponge
"Aptocyathus vitilis" = Aptocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Aptocyathella prima" = Aptocyathus prima Zhuravleva et al. 1964 archaeocyath sponge
"Galinaecyathus sp." = Aptocyathus Vologdin 1937 archaeocyath sponge
"Aptocyathella sp." = Aptocyathus Vologdin 1937 archaeocyath sponge
 Kazachstanicyathida - Altaicyathidae
"Abakanicyathus sp." = Altaicyathus, "Abakanicyathus karakolensis" = Altaicyathus
"Abakanicyathus sp." = Altaicyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Abakanicyathus karakolensis" = Altaicyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Archaeocyathus sp.
Archaeocyathus sp. Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Tabellaecyathidae
Taeniaecyathellus sp., Taeniaecyathellus semenovi
Taeniaecyathellus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Taeniaecyathellus semenovi archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus sp.
Dictyocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Loculicyathus sp.
Loculicyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Syringocnemidae
Syringocnema sp., Syringocnema eleganta
Syringocnema sp. archaeocyath sponge
Syringocnema eleganta archaeocyath sponge