Khalyya River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 2 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 2970

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (62.2° N, 138.2° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 10.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 27.5 m thick, upper Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral bioherm in the lower part (13.5 m thick), argillaceous organogenic limestone in the upper part

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. B. Khayznikova. 1989. Biostratigrafiya i tabulyaty biogermnykh otlozheniy rannego paleozoya; Yuzhnoye Verkhoyanye [Biostratigraphy and Tabulata of lower Paleozoic bioherm deposits; southern Verkhoyansk region] [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79395: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
 Stauriida - Lykophyllidae
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia formosa tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Mesofavosites obliquus Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Favosites favosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral