Silurian brachiopods of North-West Mongolia, Yamatu-Gol River (Silurian to of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (48.0° N, 89.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 16.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• Upper Silurian

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, black limestone and black shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: R. E. Alekseeva and O. A. Erlanger. 1983. Novyy kompleks siluriyskikh brakhiopod severo-zapadnoy Mongolii. The new assemblage of silurian brachiopods in the North-West Mongolia. Trudy - Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 20:25-36 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45988: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.12.2004

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Turgenostrophia rara n. gen. n. sp." = Leptaena rara
"Turgenostrophia rara n. gen. n. sp." = Leptaena rara Alekseeva and Erlanger 1983
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus angaciencis
n. subsp. longus
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae