Baraniy River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 45 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3720

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (62.9° N, 138.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 15.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Khandyg Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• 36.5 m thick, upper Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• small coral-stromatoporoid biostromes

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 79529: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Parastriatoporidae
Parastriatopora sp. Sokolov 1949 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Mesosolenia festiva tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites moyeroensis tabulate coral
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Expressophyllidae
Miculiella annae horn coral
 Stauriida - Lykophyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839 horn coral