Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (63.4° N, 136.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 14.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Khandyg Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• 73 m thick, lower Oron 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 79423: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
Ecclimadictyon nikiforovae stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Ainia sp. Leleshus 1974 tabulate coral | |
Mesofavosites sp. Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral |