Otvorot River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 29 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3717

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (60.2° N, 137.1° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 16.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Khandyg Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• 6 m thick, Upper Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• algal-coral-stromatoporoid bioherm

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 79471: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Palaeophyllum sp. Billings 1858 horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites kennihoensis tabulate coral
 Favositida - Syringolitidae
Syringolites kunthianus Lindström 1896 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia tortuosa Fritz 1937 tabulate coral