Baraniy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 40 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3719

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)

• 7 m thick, upper Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-stromatoporoid bioherm

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 79525: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Subalveolites volutus tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Gephuropora infera Volkova et al. 1978 tabulate coral
Favosites favosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia formosa tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolitidae indet. Lindström 1876 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora anikeevi tabulate coral
Halysites ex gr. catenularius Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
 Stauriida - Ptychophyllidae
 Stauriida - Entelophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge