Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (62.9° N, 138.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 5.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baraniy Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• 15 m thick, upper Baraniy 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 79553: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.03.2008

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