Also known as Reef 3793
Where: Tuva, Russian Federation (52.9° N, 95.3° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 5.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Khamsarin 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 81490: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.06.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Archaeocyatha | |
"Retecyathus kuzmini" = Archaeocyathus
"Retecyathus kuzmini" = Archaeocyathus archaeocyath sponge | |
Erbocyathus heterovallum archaeocyath sponge | |
Irinaecyathus ratus archaeocyath sponge
Irinaecyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Irinaecyathus cf. ratus archaeocyath sponge |