Where: Khasagt-Khairkhan, Mongolia (46.8° N, 95.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 7.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Salany-Gol Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• See Korobov & Missarzhevksy (1977); Was Tommotian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Specimens were collected by T. Sovmestn the author's colleagues in the Paleontological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (N.V. Yesakova and Ye. A. Zhegallo). The collections are also stored in this Institute.

Primary reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky. 1980. Early Cambrian mongolian hyolitha and gastropoda. Paleontological Journal 15(1):18-25 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96492: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.06.2010

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