Western Sayan Range, Belogorsk bioherm (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3688

Where: Tuva, Russian Federation (51.6° N, 90.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 18.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Belaya Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• probably Wenlock (Lower Silurian); PJW: originally Belogorsk;

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-stromatoporoid biohems

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Naumenko. 1970. Kompleksy rannesiluriyskikh tabulyatomorfnykh korallov zapadnogo Sayana i ikh ekologicheskiye osobennosti [Early Silurian tabulate coral assemblages of the western Sayan region and their ecologic characteristics]. in Zakonomernosti rasprostraneniya paleozoyskikh korallov SSSR [Distribution and sequence of Paleozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (3)60-74 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78713: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral
Halysites aff. regularis Fischer-Benzon 1871 tabulate coral
Catenipora gothlandica tabulate coral
Catenipora aff. anikeevi tabulate coral
Catenipora maxima Fischer-Benzon 1871 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporidae
Plasmopora sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Stelliporellidae
Stelliporella sp. Wentzel 1895 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Subalveolites cf. panderi Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia cf. temperans Klaamann 1962 tabulate coral
Multisolenia tortuosa Fritz 1937 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Paleofavosites paulus tabulate coral
Favosites aff. undulatus tabulate coral
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Mesofavosites aff. fleximurinus Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Mesofavosites cf. obliquus Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Brachyelasma sp. Lang et al. 1940 horn coral
listed as Brashyelasma
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae
"Stereoxylodes sp." = Entelophyllum, Altaja florida
"Stereoxylodes sp." = Entelophyllum Wedekind 1927 horn coral
Altaja florida horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Aphyllum sociale horn coral
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Delthyris elevata Dalman 1828
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus oblongus de Sowerby 1839
 Atrypida - Atrypidae