Lek-Elets River reef, Polar Urals (Devonian to of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 2249

Where: Komi, Russian Federation (67.4° N, 65.2° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° N, 7.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pragian to Pragian (410.8 - 393.3 Ma)

• Pragian part: 360 m thick and 5 km long, Lower Emsian part: 220 m thick and 2 km long

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Grey massive wackestones and skeletal packstones form the reef base. Light-grey algal-stromatoporoid boundstones, associated with Ikella-Fistulella and Solenopora-metazoans boundstones are also common. The Lower Emsian part is an alternation of microbial-stromatoporoid boundstones, mudstones with Stromatactis and skeletal packstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Antoshkina and P. Königshof. 2008. Lower Devonian reef structures in Russia: an example from the Urals. Facies 54(2):233-251 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81602: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Garwoodia sp. Wood 1941
Rothpletzella
  -
Sphaerocodium
  -
Sphaerocodium sp. Rothpletz 1890
unclassified
  -
Nuia
  -
? Nuia sp. Maslov 1954
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Bicorium sp. Maslov 1956
Abacella
  -
Abacella sp. Maslov 1956
 Eukaryota -
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Rhabdoporella sp. Stolley 1893
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Lancicula sp. Maslov 1956
Litanaia sp. Maslov 1956
Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
Hydrozoa
  -
Fistulella sp. Shuysky 1970
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
 Life -
Flabellia sp. Shuysky 1973