Krayniy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 3 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (63.5° N, 136.6° E: paleocoordinates 20.0° N, 8.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kuranakh Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• 50 m thick, lower Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• organogenic-detrital limestones

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 79478: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Paleofavosites paulus tabulate coral
Calamopora alveolaris Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Mesofavosites insuetus tabulate coral
Mesofavosites ganinensis tabulate coral
Favosites cf. sulcatus tabulate coral
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805