Baraniy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 39 (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: Khandyg Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• 37 m thick, upper Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous 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 79516: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Subalveolites volutus tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia formosa tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Favosites favosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Gephuropora varia n. sp. Volkova et al. 1978 tabulate coral
Gephuropora infera n. sp. Volkova et al. 1978 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora tungussica tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral
 Cystiphyllida - Holmophyllidae
 Stauriida - Endophyllidae
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae