Mansiiskii Fm., Tochilinskaya Suite (Group), Nyuya River localities 8310-8329 (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (60.0° N, 116.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 5.5° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Ust’Kut Formation), Mansian (485.4 - 485.0 Ma)

• Tochilinskaya Suite (Group)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal limestone and dolomite

• stromatolitic and ooidal limestone and dolomite with various lithologies

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete

Primary reference: A. V. Kanygin. 1989. Ordovician siberian Platform: Fauna and stratigraphy of the Lena Facial Zone; Novosibirski; Nauka Sib. Birch. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki Vypusk Akademiya Nauk SSSR 751:1-216 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9273: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.10.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Hyolithelminthida -
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite
Callograptus sp. graptolite
Conodonta
 Proconodontida - Proconodontidae
Proconodontus sp. Miller 1969 conodont
 Paraconodontida -
Furnishina sp. Müller 1959 conodont
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Acrocephalitidae
Diceratocephalina sp. Maksimova 1962 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Plethopeltidae
Plethopeltoides sp. Khramova 1968 trilobite
 Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Calvinella sp. Walcott 1914 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Pseudoacrocephalites sp. Maksimova 1962 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Cheilocephalidae
Pseudokoldinia sp. Rozova 1968 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Finkelnburgia sp. Walcott 1905