Tsakhir-Khalgain-Nuru, Tsogt area (Devonian of Mongolia)

Also known as Reef 3726

Where: Mongolia (45.3° N, 96.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Duchindabin Member (Tsogt Formation), Siegen (412.3 - 409.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• limestones and sandy limestones with small coral biostromes

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: T. T. Sharkova. 1981. Siluriiskiye i devonskiye tabulyaty Mongolii [Silurian and Devonian Tabulata of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 14:5-104 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79714: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Embolophyllum sp. Pedder 1967 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphylloides sp. Chapman 1893 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites admirabilis tabulate coral
Favosites multiformis tabulate coral
 Favositida - Cleistoporidae
Riphaeolites zogtensis n. sp. Sharkova 1981 tabulate coral
Riphaeolites magnus n. sp. Sharkova 1981 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Pachypora mongolia n. sp. Sharkova 1981 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Caliapora prisca tabulate coral
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
"Lioclema cf. netchlavense" = Leioclema
"Lioclema cf. netchlavense" = Leioclema
 Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
Eridotrypella sp. Duncan 1939
Leptotrypella sp. Vinassa de Regny 1921