Tuvaella barkolensis planidorsata Community, Kyzyl-Dzhar-Chokusu sequence (Silurian of Mongolia)
Where: northwestern Mongolia, Mongolia (49.0° N, 92.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 15.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, green sandstone and lithified siltstone
• coastal, shallow water, quiet environment with some deeper water conditions.
• Interbedded greenish-gray, fine-grained sandstone and siltstone with subordinate, sandy, Tuvaella coquina layers up to 10 cm thick.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K.H. S. Rozman. 1999. Silurian brachiopod communities of Mongolia. in A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson, eds., Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 164-176 [M. Foote/C. Simpson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13190: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Carl Simpson on 26.01.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Unstudied Lingula, pelecypods, and uncommon gastropods, ostracodes, and cephalopods.
Show authors, comments, and common names
unclassified | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Bivalvia | |
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam |