Also known as Reef 3790
Where: Tuva, Russian Federation (51.6° N, 93.6° E: paleocoordinates 5.6° S, 7.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Bayan Kol Formation), Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• Sanashtykgol stage
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; 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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81475: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.06.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Archaeocyatha | |
Irinaecyathus grandiperforatus archaeocyath sponge | |
Clathricoscinus vassilievi archaeocyath sponge |