Kadvoy River, Tannu-Ola Mountains, unit 13 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3792

Where: Tuva, Russian Federation (51.0° N, 92.8° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° S, 7.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Irbitey Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• 30 m thick, Sanashtykgol stage

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• small bioherms

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 81488: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Archaeocyatha
 Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
"Rhabdocyathella baileyi" = Archaeolynthus
"Rhabdocyathella baileyi" = Archaeolynthus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Sajanocyathidae
Irinaecyathus grandiperforatus archaeocyath sponge
Irinaecyathus ex gr. ratus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Anthomorphidae
Anthomorpha rachkovskii archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Shiveligocyathidae
Shiveligocyathus vesiculoides archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Claruscoscinidae
Claruscoscinus billingsi Vologdin 1940 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeocyathidae
"Claruscyathus solidus" = Archaeocyathus
"Claruscyathus solidus" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra ex gr. bipartita archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra rotunda archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra densa archaeocyath sponge