Mandal-Obo, Mushgai area (Silurian of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (44.4° N, 104.3° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 33.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. N. Bolshakova and L. M. Ulitina. 1985. Stromatoporaty i biostratigrafiya nizhnego paleozoya Mongolii [Stromatoporata and biostratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 27:5-94 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79684: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
"Leptelasma sociale" = Synamplexoides
"Leptelasma sociale" = Synamplexoides horn coral
 Stauriida - Pycnostylidae
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites grandis n. sp. Sharkova 1981 tabulate coral
Catenipora minuta tabulate coral
Catenipora spirordensis tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia uralica tabulate coral
Multisolenia tortuosa Fritz 1937 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites kennihoensis tabulate coral
subsp. minus
Favosites burkhanensis n. sp. Sharkova 1981 tabulate coral
Favosites subfavosus Klaamann 1962 tabulate coral
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral