PBDB Collection

Patom Uplift, Ura Fm, Ura River section (Ediacaran of Russian Federation)

Where: Yakutsk, Russian Federation (60.3° N, 117.1° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° S, 3.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ura Formation, Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• Early Ediacaran

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray mudstone and lithified siltstone

• The Patom Uplift is a structural block located at the southeastern margin of the Siberian Platform, which wedges into the platform as the northern-most front of the Baikal-Patom Fold Zone. The Baikal-Patom zone has been strongly deformed (folded and faulted) and juxtaposed to the Siberian craton in multiple tectonic phases throughout Mesoproterozoic–Palaeozoic times. It consists

•of a thick sedimentary and volcanic rock succession, reaching up to ca. 5–7 km in total composite thickness.

•It has been suggested that they represent marine shelf and platform facies of cratonic passive margin (Khomentovsky and Postnikov, 2001), or a carbonate platform and rimmed shelf leading to a deep-water open shelf (Melezhik et al., 2009). Alternatively, strata were deposited in an active margin of the foreland basin adjacent to back-arc and subducting zone of ocean basin (Chumakov et al., 2007; Nemerov et al., 2010).

• grey and greygreenish mudstone and siltstone of the Ura Formation within an

•interval of 3-15 m above the section base in an exposed succession

•of c. 20 m thick deposits.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. Moczydłowska and K. E. Nagovitsin. 2012. Ediacaran radiation of organic-walled microbiota recorded in the Ura Formation, Patom Uplift, East Siberia. Precambrian Research 198-199:1-24 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 140284: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Life -	Leiosphaeridia spp., Appendisphaera tabifica, Tanarium muntense, Tanarium anozos, Tanarium tuberosum, Tanarium conoideum, Tanarium digitiformum, Multifronsphaeridium ramosum, Asseserium fusulentum, Asseserium piramidalis, Variomargosphaeridium floridum, Ceratosphaeridium cf. glaberosum Leiosphaeridia spp. Eisenack 1958 Appendisphaera tabifica Moczydlowska et al. 1993 acritarchs Tanarium muntense Grey 2005 acritarchs Tanarium anozos Willman 2008 acritarchs Tanarium tuberosum Moczydlowska et al. 1993 acritarchs Tanarium conoideum Kolosova 1991 acritarchs Tanarium digitiformum Nagovitsin and Faizullin 2004 acritarchs Multifronsphaeridium ramosum Moczydłowska and Nagovitsin 2012 acritarchs sp. nov. Asseserium fusulentum Moczydłowska and Nagovitsin 2012 acritarchs sp. nov. Asseserium piramidalis Moczydłowska and Nagovitsin 2012 acritarchs sp. nov. Variomargosphaeridium floridum acritarchs sp. nov. Ceratosphaeridium cf. glaberosum Grey 2005 acritarchs
Cavaspina
-	Cavaspina uria Cavaspina uria Nagovitsin and Faizullin 2004
Cavaspina acuminata
-	Cavaspina acuminata Cavaspina acuminata Kolosova 1991
Densisphaera arista
-	Densisphaera arista Densisphaera arista Moczydłowska and Nagovitsin 2012
Densisphaera fistulosa
-	Densisphaera fistulosa Densisphaera fistulosa Moczydłowska and Nagovitsin 2012 sp. nov.
Urasphaera capitalis
-	Urasphaera capitalis Urasphaera capitalis Moczydłowska and Nagovitsin 2012 sp. nov.
Ancorosphaeridium
-	Ancorosphaeridium robustum Ancorosphaeridium robustum Moczydłowska and Nagovitsin 2012 sp. nov.
Ancorosphaeridium minor
-	Ancorosphaeridium minor Ancorosphaeridium minor Sergeev et al. 2011
Ancorosphaeridium magnum
-	Ancorosphaeridium magnum Ancorosphaeridium magnum Sergeev et al. 2011