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)
• 86 m thick, lower Oron 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 79533: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Multisolenia sp. Fritz 1937 tabulate coral | |
Favosites moyeroensis tabulate coral
Favosites ex gr. forbesi tabulate coral | |
Neocystiphyllum maccoyi horn coral | |
Miculiella annae horn coral | |
Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839 horn coral | |
Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge |