Sukhoy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 8 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

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

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae
Parallelostroma sp. Nestor 1966 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora anikeevi tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Mesofavosites interior tabulate coral