Altai Mountains, Dietken Formation (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (52.0° N, 86.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 24.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dietken Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. S. Dzyubo. 1970. Biostratigraficheskoye raschleneniye verkhnego ordovika Altaya i Gornoy Shorii po tabulyatam i geliolitidam [Upper Ordovician biostratigraphy of the Altai and Shoriya mountains based on tabulate and heliolitid corals]. 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)84-87 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78802: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Lyopora altaica tabulate coral
Lyopora minima tabulate coral
Reuschia sokolovi tabulate coral
Baikitolites sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
Nyctopora sp. Nicholson 1879 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Paleofavosites sp. Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral
Mesofavosites sp. Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Palaeoporitidae
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Taeniolitidae
Wormsipora karasuensis tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Stelliporellidae
Stelliporella altaica tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Propora parvotubulata tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Cyrtophyllidae
Cyrtophyllum kaniensis tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporellidae
Plasmoporella sp. Kiaer 1899 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Sibiriolitidae
Sibiriolites sp. Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral