Tsagaan Del Unit 6. Right bank of Buriduin-Gol River, 4 km NE of Bor-kuduk well: Katian, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tuvechia regularis
Ariunchimeg 2009
Anthozoa
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
Anthozoa - Heliolitida
Heliolitida indet. Frech 1897
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora informal sp. nov. Lamarck 1816
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Halysites proecedens
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Proheliolitidae
"Proheliolites" ex gr. koskolensis
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora ex gr. magna
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Sibiriolitidae
Mongoliolites paradoxides
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Grewingkia anguinea Scheffen 1933
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
Stromatocerium pergatum
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechia huronensis Billings 1865
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Rosenellidae
Pachystylostroma woyuensis
Ariunchimeg 2009
Pachystylostroma ozakii Bolshakova and Ulitina 1985
Ariunchimeg 2009
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon vormsiense Riabinin 1951
Clathrodictyon microundulatum Nestor 1964
Conodonta - Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus gracilis (Branson and Mehl 1933)
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Panderodus serratus Rexroad 1967
Ariunchimeg 2009
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Icriodella superba
Ariunchimeg 2009
Amorphognathus tvaerensis
Ariunchimeg 2009
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Erismodus sp.
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Conodonta - Coleodontidae
Neocoleodus borealis
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
top 5 meters only
Conodonta
Scandodus informal sp. I of Lindstrom Lindstrom 1955
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
top 5 meters only
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Nematopora galinae n. sp.
Ariunchimeg 2009
Ulrichostylus aculeatus n. sp.
Ariunchimeg 2009
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Stictopora mutabilis
Ariunchimeg 2009
Pachydictya ambigua
Ariunchimeg 2009
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa multiseptata
Ariunchimeg 2009
Eridotrypa debiliformis
Ariunchimeg 2009
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma crassitunicatum
Ariunchimeg 2009
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida
Nicholsonella amplexa
Ariunchimeg 2009
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Homotrypa aberrans
Ariunchimeg 2009
Atactoporella irregulariformis
Ariunchimeg 2009
Stenolaemata - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatopora spatiosa n. sp.
Ariunchimeg 2009
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Wysogorskiella mongoliensis
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis acuticostata
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Hesperorthis latecostata Rozman 1977
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Parastrophinella salairica Severgina 1978
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
recombined as Protanastrophia salairica
top 5 meters only
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula informal sp. nov. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida
Togaella ex gr. salairica
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
nomen dubium belonging to Rhynchonellida
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta ex gr. conspicua (Reed 1917)
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
recombined as Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) conspicua
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Oepikina sp. (Salmon 1942)
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
original and current combination Opikina
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia State/province:Bayanhongor
Coordinates: 46.4° North, 100.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.3° North, 20.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Katian Graptolite zone: Dicellograptus complanatus
Age range of interval:453.00000 - 445.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tsagaan Del Member:Upper
Local section:Tsagaan Del Local bed:248 - 273 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Bolshakova and Ulitina 1985 give unit 6 as 10 m thick.

Diyetken stage in Mongolia.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,brown,gray lithified argillaceous,sandy "limestone"
Lithology description: Bolshakova & Ulitina 1985: reef-like limestone lens intercalated in sandstones. Rozman & Minzhin 1980: Brownish-gray, argillaceous limestones, with seams of sandy, organogenic, coral-brachiopod, eluviated limestones.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 2668; Tsagan-Del
Database number:79592
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Wagner Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-14 04:11:28 Last modified:2015-06-23 13:24:42
Access level:the public Released:2008-03-14 04:11:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26709. L. N. Bolshakova and L. M. Ulitina. 1985. Stromatoporaty i biostratigrafiya nizhnego paleozoya Mongolii [Stromatoporata and biostratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 27:5-94 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

55569 Y.a. Ariunchimeg. 2009. New Late Ordovician Bryozoans from the Tsagaan-Del Section of Central Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 43(4):401-407 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
55575 K.h. S. Rozman and C.h. Minzhin. 1980. Stratigraphy of the Ordovician Ashgillian Stage of Western Mongolia. International Geology Review 22(5):575-586 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]