Gorny Altai, Yurok Section, balhaschensis/ kirgisicus zone (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (52.0° N, 87.1° E: paleocoordinates 9.7° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: balhaschensis/ kirgisicus graptolite zone, Karasa Formation, Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; brown, gray, yellow siltstone and mudstone

• and sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: N. V. Sennikov, O.T. Obut, E. V. Lykova, A. V. Timokhin, T. V. Gonta, R. A. Khabibulina, T. A. Shcherbanenko and T. P. Kipriyanova. 2019. Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai. 1-183 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205573: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 16.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Paracybeloides sp. Hupé 1955 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Raymondaspis sp. Pribyl 1948 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Robergia sparsa Nikolaisen 1983 trilobite
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
 Graptoloidea -
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae