Pravaya Aba River, Western Sayan, Upper Monok Formation: Botomian, Russian Federation

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Tercyathidae
Tercyathus validus
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Vologdinocyathidae
Syringocyathus cf. aspectabilis
Archaeocyatha - Putapacyathida - Alphacyathidae
Aptocyathus gordoni
Aptocyathella prima Zhuravleva et al. 1964
recombined as Aptocyathus prima
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Khakasiya
Coordinates: 52.5° North, 89.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.7° South, 9.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Series 2
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 2-3
Key time interval:Botomian
Age range of interval:515.60000 - 512.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Upper Monok
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Sanashtykgol stage
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:perireef or subreef
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 3786
Database number:81462
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-25 02:16:01 Last modified:2008-07-21 05:44:59
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
27400. 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]