Salaany Gol, GR crusts, Zavkhan Basin, Mongolia: Atdabanian - Botomian, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chabakoviacea
Renalcis polymorphus
rare
Tarthinia rotunda
rare
Batinevia sp. Korde 1966
rare
Gordonophyton sp. Korde 1973
rare
Hormogoneae - Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Okulitchicyathus sp. n. sp.
rare
Cambrocyathellus communis
rare
Cambrocyathellus tuberculatus
abundant
Cambrocyathellus pannonicus
abundant
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Copleicyathidae
Tabulacyathellus bidzhaensis
rare
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Archaeopharetra marginata
dominant
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Chouberticyathus lepidus
rare
Dictyocyathus confertus
rare
Archaeocyatha - Capsulocyathida - Alataucyathidae
Alataucyathus jaroschevitschi Zhuravleva 1955
rare
Archaeocyatha - Capsulocyathida - Cryptoporocyathidae
Capsulocyathus irregularis
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Ichnusocyathus changaiensis
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Kymbecyathidae
Urcyathus sp.
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
Dokidocyathus tuvaensis
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Pretiosocyathidae
Pretiosocyathus subtilis
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Erbocyathidae
Ladaecyathus melnikovae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Bipallicyathidae
Bipallicyathus manifestus
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
Baikalocyathus ex gr. mirus
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Orbicyathus mongolicus
rare
Rotundocyathus floris
rare
Rotundocyathus levigatus
rare
Ajacicyathus mongolicus
rare
Robustocyathellus abundans
rare
Nochoroicyathus misertumulus
rare
Nochoroicyathus amplus
rare
Nochoroicyathus certus
rare
Nochoroicyathus concinnus
rare
Nochoroicyathus chassaktuensis
abundant
Nochoroicyathus howelli (Vologdin 1940)
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Tumulocyathidae
Tumulocyathus pustulatus
rare
Plicocyathus stellatus
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Fallocyathidae
? Fallocyathus frutectosus
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Tumulifungiidae
Tologoicyathus sp. Voronin 1988
rare
Sclerocyathus floridus
rare
Archaeocyatha - Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
Archaeolynthus solidimurus
rare
Archaeocyatha - Monocyathida - Tumuliolynthidae
Tumuliolynthus tubexternus
rare
Polyactinellidae
Dodecaactinella sp. Reif 1968
rare
Khasaktidae
Edelsteinia sp.
dominant
Khasaktia intermedia
rare
Radiocyatha - Hetairacyathidae
Girphanovella georgensis
rare
disarticulated nesasters
Hydroconozoa
Hydroconus tenuis
rare
unclassified
informal Cibricyathid indet.
abundant
Rackovskaia sp.
dominant
informal Coleolid indet.
rare
informal Chancelloriid indet.
abundant
informal Hyolithid indet.
rare
Rhodophyceae
Angulocellularia sp. Vologdin 1962
rare
Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
abundant
unclassified
Botominella sp. Reitlinger 1959
rare
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia
Coordinates: 46.9° North, 95.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.3° South, 7.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
Stage: Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2 - Cambrian 2-3
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Atdabanian - Early/Lower Botomian
Key time interval: Atdabanian - Botomian
Age range of interval: 521 - 512.5 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Salaany Gol
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Salaany Gol Formation unconformingly overlien by the Khayrkhan Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified bindstone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Bioerosion:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Gordonophyton-Razumovskia crusts (GR)
Metadata
Also known as:reef 2310
Database number:22939
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:B. Bookhagen
Modifier:B. Bookhagen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-07-04 00:57:03 Last modified:2002-07-04 06:31:45
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-04 00:57:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6600. P. D. Kruse, A. Gandin, F. Debrenne and R. Wood. 1996. Early Cambrian bioconstructions in the Zavkhan Basin of western Mongolia. Geological Magazine 133(4):429-444 [W. Kiessling/B. Bookhagen/B. Bookhagen]