Also known as Section 1
Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (70.2° N, 113.7° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 7.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kuonamkites small shelly zone, 4 Member (Kuonamka Formation), Amgan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)
• "Kuonamka Formation and belong to the Amgan Stage of the traditional Middle Cambrian of Siberia"; "These can be correlated with lower Stage 5 ... of IUGS"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary limestone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by A. Kouchinsky, S. Bengtson in 1996
Primary reference: A. Kouchinsky, S. Bengtson, S. Clausen, A. Gubanov, J. M. Malinky and J. S. Peel. 2011. A middle Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Kuonamka Formation, northern Siberia. Alcheringa 35(1):123-189 [P. Wagner/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 110619: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Hallie Street on 11.06.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloriida indet. Walcott 1920 | |
Conodonta | |
Gapparodus bisulcatus conodont | |
Bradoriida | |
Palaeoscolecida | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Helcionelloida | |
Pelagiella spp. Matthew 1895 | |
Yochelcionella sp. Runnegar and Pojeta 1974 | |
Protoconodonta | |
Protoconodonta indet. Landing 1995 | |
Mongolitubulus reticulatus Kouchinsky et al. 2011 |