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

Also known as Reef 3787

Where: Khakasiya, Russian Federation (52.5° N, 89.1° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 9.1° 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

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 81463: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
"Claruscyathus solidus" = Archaeocyathus, "Claruscyathus kuliki" = Archaeocyathus, "Claruscyathus cumfundus" = Archaeocyathus, "Retecyathus kuzmini" = Archaeocyathus
"Claruscyathus solidus" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Claruscyathus kuliki" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Claruscyathus cumfundus" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
"Retecyathus kuzmini" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tegerocyathidae
Tegerocyathus abakanensis archaeocyath sponge
Tegerocyathus karakolicus Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Vologdinocyathidae
Syringocyathus aspectabilis archaeocyath sponge
Tegerocyathella expansiva Osadchaya et al. 1979 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Erbocyathidae
Erbocyathus heterovallum archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Irinaecyathus ratus archaeocyath sponge
Irinaecyathus grandiperforatus archaeocyath sponge