Baraniy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 7 (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (62.9° N, 138.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 3.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baraniy Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• 32 m thick, lower Baraniy Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. N. Volkova, Y. Y. Latypov, and K. B. Khayznikova. 1978. Ordovik i silur Yuzhnogo Verkhoyanya (biostratigrafiya i paleontologiya) [The Ordovician and Silurian of the southern Verkhoyansk Range (biostratigraphy and paleontology)]. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki 381:3-219 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79492: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Favistella sp. Dana 1846 horn coral
 Heliolitida - Cyrtophyllidae
Cyrtophyllum sp. Lindström 1882 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora ex gr. gracilis Hall in Foster and Whitney 1851 tabulate coral