Where: Tuva, Russian Federation (51.4° N, 94.2° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° S, 6.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Shangan Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• 97 m thick, Sanashtykgol stage
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; 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 81473: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.06.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Ezhimia bifurcata trilobite
Ezhimia gyrata trilobite |