Tsakhirin-Khuduk, Dzhinsetu Ula Mountains, Gobi Altai (Silurian of Mongolia)

Also known as Reef 2416

Where: Mongolia (44.4° N, 99.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 26.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tsagaan-Bulag Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• small coral-stromatoporoid biostromes

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. N. Bolshakova and L. M. Ulitina. 1985. Stromatoporaty i biostratigrafiya nizhnego paleozoya Mongolii [Stromatoporata and biostratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 27:5-94 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79645: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Axuolites sp. Sharkova 1963 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
"Taxopora salairica" = Cladopora
"Taxopora salairica" = Cladopora tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Hexismia mongolica tabulate coral
Halysites opinus tabulate coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
"Coronoruga aff. regia" = Cystiphyllum
"Coronoruga aff. regia" = Cystiphyllum horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma aequabile Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lykophyllidae
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae
Stromatoporoidea
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Plectostroma intermedium stromatoporoid sponge
Plectostroma podolicum stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Syringostromellidae
Syringostromella borealis stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Plexodictyon savaliense stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon striatellum stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae
Parallelostroma yavorskyi stromatoporoid sponge
Parallelostroma malinovzyense stromatoporoid sponge
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
"Lioclema implecatum" = Leioclema, "Lioclema gloria" = Leioclema
"Lioclema implecatum" = Leioclema
"Lioclema gloria" = Leioclema
 Trepostomida -