N-228/4, Salany-Gol (Cambrian to of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (46.8° N, 95.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Salany-Gol Formation (Hayrhan and Salany-Gol Group), Botomian to Botomian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• Voronin et al. f. 19.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone

• key suggests siltstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

• Specimens were collected by T. Sovmestn the author's colleagues in the Paleontological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (N.V. Yesakova and Ye. A. Zhegallo). The collections are also stored in this Institute.

Primary reference: Y. Voronin, L. G. Voronova, N. V. Grigoreva, N. A. Drozdova, E. A. Zhegallo, A. Yu Zhuravlev, A. L. Ragozina, A. Yu Rozanov, and T. A. Sayutina. 1982. The Precambrian/Cambrian Boundary in the geosynclinal areas (the reference section of Salany-Gol, MPR). Sovmestnaya Sovetsko Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya Trudy 1-150 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9994: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 07.02.2001, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus vladimirovae Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella curva Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
Torellella lentiformis Syssoiev 1962
Brachiopoda
  - Salanygolinidae
Salanygolina obliqua Ushatinskaya 1987
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Lapworthella nigra Cobbold 1921
Khairkhania rotata
  - Khairkhaniidae
Khairkhania rotata Missarzhevsky 1980