Sanashtykgol River, Western Sayan (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3786

Where: Khakasiya, Russian Federation (52.4° N, 89.1° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 9.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Sanashtykgol stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

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 81460: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Putapacyathida - Alphacyathidae
Aptocyathus gordoni archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Loculicyathus membranivestites archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
Archaeocyathus yavorskii Vologdin 1931 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra grandicaveata archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus cf. salairicus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Syringocnemidae
Syringocnema eleganta archaeocyath sponge
 Monocyathida - Tumuliolynthidae
Tumuliolynthus tubexternus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida -
Tabulacyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Annulocyathidae
Annulocyathus pulcher archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Bronchocyathidae
Taylorcyathus taylori archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Sibirecyathus dissepimentalis archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus sp." = Nochoroicyathus Zhuravleva 1951 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Formosocyathus bulynnikovi archaeocyath sponge
Sajanocyathus ussovi archaeocyath sponge
Zonacyathus poletaevae archaeocyath sponge
Zonacyathus flexus archaeocyath sponge
Zonacyathus vermiculatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Densocyathidae
Leptosocyathus curviseptatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Carinacyathidae
"Porocyathus sp." = Carinacyathus
"Porocyathus sp." = Carinacyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmophyllidae
Squamosocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tercyathidae
Tercyathellus altaicus archaeocyath sponge
"Tercyathus sp." = Tercyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Piamaecyathus sajanicus" = Tercyathus archaeocyath sponge
Clathricyathellus firmus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulocyathidae
Tumulocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tegerocyathidae
Tegerocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus dianthus archaeocyath sponge
Coscinocyathus spatiosus archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Clathricoscinidae
Clathricoscinus infirmus archaeocyath sponge
Clathricoscinus dentatus archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Cryptoporocyathidae
Capsulocyathus irregularis archaeocyath sponge
Batchatocyathus
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Batchatocyathus sp. Vologdin 1940
Bicyathus
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