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

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (62.9° N, 138.1° E: paleocoordinates 20.4° N, 9.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 25.5 m thick, lower Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; 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 79507: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Paleofavosites sp. Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral
Favosites ex gr. favosiformis Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Mesofavosites sp. Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma sp. Hall 1847 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Aegiria sp. Opik 1933
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Virgianidae
Borealis borealis Eichwald 1842
subsp. schmidti