Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (63.4° N, 136.7° E: paleocoordinates 20.1° N, 8.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kuranakh Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)
• 21 m thick, lower Tayakh Suite
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone
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 79412: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
Parallelostroma sp. Nestor 1966 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Catenipora anikeevi tabulate coral | |
Paleofavosites balticus tabulate coral
Mesofavosites interior tabulate coral |