Kazly River, Western Sayan, Chekhan Formation (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3786

Where: Khakasiya, Russian Federation (52.3° N, 89.0° E: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 9.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chekhan Formation, Toyonian (512.9 - 510.2 Ma)

• Obruchev stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• massive limestone beds intercalated with tuffsandstones

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 81450: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
"Archaeocyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus, "Claruscyathus cumfundus" = Archaeocyathus, Archaeocyathus yavorskii, "Flindersicyathus subradiatus" = Archaeocyathus
"Archaeocyathus sp." = Archaeocyathus Billings 1861 archaeocyath sponge
"Claruscyathus cumfundus" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
Archaeocyathus yavorskii Vologdin 1931 archaeocyath sponge
"Flindersicyathus subradiatus" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Tabellaecyathidae
Taeniaecyathellus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Claruscoscinidae
Claruscoscinus billingsi Vologdin 1940 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Irinaecyathus ex gr. ratus archaeocyath sponge
Irinaecyathus grandiperforatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tercyathidae
Tercyathellus altaicus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tegerocyathidae
"Alexandricyathus edelsteini" = Tegerocyathus
"Alexandricyathus edelsteini" = Tegerocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Clathricoscinidae
? Clathricoscinus sp. archaeocyath sponge