M303A/33,34, Tiktirikteekh Creek (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Lena River, Tiktirikteekh Creek, Russia - Zhuravlev et. al 1983 probably is the same as this

Where: Y, Russian Federation (66.4° N, 112.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.3° S, 8.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lapworthella bella small shelly zone, Pestrotsvet Formation, Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• Dokidocyathus regularis archaeocyath zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Platy, brick red argillaceous limestones with rare greenish-gray limestone bands and archeocyathid bioherms.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: bulk,

• The collection only includes new genera/species. Other possible genera found at the localities are unknown. The fossils described are stored at the Paleontological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, USSR Academy of Sciences.

Primary reference: A. Y. Rozanov, V. V. Missarzhevsky, N. A. Volkova, L. G. Voronova, I. N. Krylov, B.M. Keller, I. K. Korolyuk, K. Lendzion, R. Mikhnyar, N. G. Pykhova, and A. D. Sidorov. 1969. Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya [The Tommotian Stage and the Cambrian lower Boundary problem]. Trudy Geoligske Institut Leningrad 206:1-379 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10093: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 14.02.2001, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Rozanov et al. added (PJW)
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Orthothecidae
Trapezotheca bicostata Rozanov et al. 1969
 Hyolithida - Sulcavitidae
Burithes sp. Rozanov et al. 1969
Archaeocyatha
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus rojkovi archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Retecoscinus retetabulae archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Tumulocyathidae
"Kotuyicyathus sp." = Tumulocyathus
"Kotuyicyathus sp." = Tumulocyathus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Ajacicyathus anabarensis archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Cambrocyathellus sp., "Robustocyathus robustus" = Cambrocyathellus robustus, "Ramuscyathus proximus n. sp." = Paranacyathus, Okulitchicyathus disciformis
Cambrocyathellus sp. archaeocyath sponge
"Robustocyathus robustus" = Cambrocyathellus robustus Vologdin 1937 archaeocyath sponge
"Ramuscyathus proximus n. sp." = Paranacyathus archaeocyath sponge
Okulitchicyathus disciformis archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus translucidus archaeocyath sponge
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus tenuis Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
 Camenida - Camenidae
Camena sp. Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966