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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae - Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
rare
Chabakoviacea
rare
rare
Gordonophyton sp. Korde 1973
rare
Batinevia sp. Korde 1966
rare
Radiocyatha - Hetairacyathidae
rare
disarticulated nesasters
Hydroconozoa
rare
Polyactinellidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
rare
rare
abundant
abundant
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
rare
rare
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
dominant
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Copleicyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Monocyathida - Monocyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Monocyathida - Tumuliolynthidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Capsulocyathida - Cryptoporocyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Capsulocyathida - Alataucyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Kymbecyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Dokidocyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Bipallicyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
rare
rare
rare
rare
abundant
Nochoroicyathus howelli (Vologdin 1940)
rare
rare
rare
rare
rare
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Tumulifungiidae
rare
Tologoicyathus sp. Voronin 1988
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Tumulocyathidae
rare
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Fallocyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Erbocyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Pretiosocyathidae
rare
Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
rare
Khasaktidae
dominant
rare
unclassified
abundant
dominant
rare
abundant
rare
Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
abundant
Rhodophyceae
Angulocellularia sp. Vologdin 1962
rare
unclassified
Botominella sp. Reitlinger 1959
rare
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia
Coordinates: 46.9° North, 95.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.6° North, 42.0° West (Wright 2013)
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 - 512.1 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:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-04 00:57:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]