Sukhoy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 11 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3713

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)

• 41 m thick, lower Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• small coral-stromatoporoid biostrome

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 79416: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge