Llandeilian brachiopods of Mongolian Altai, Tonkhul (Ordovician of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (46.0° N, 93.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 26.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Christiania subquadrata beds Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• Agachulinskye Horizon

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments and tuff

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: K.h. S. Rozman and L. G. Severgina. 1983. Llandeylovskiye brakhiopodovye kompleksy Mongolskogo i Gornogo Altaya. Llandeilian brachiopods assemblages of Mongolian and Gorny Altai. Trudy - Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 20:14-25 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45985: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.12.2004, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Atelelasma subdorsoconvexum Rozman and Severgina 1983
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Isophragma extensum Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
"Leptellina semilunata" = Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata
"Leptellina semilunata" = Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata Williams 1962
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
? Rhipidomena sp. Cooper 1956
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae