Sakkyryr River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 14 (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 995

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)

• 35 m thick, upper Baraniy Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• small coral-stromatoporoid biostrome at the base

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 79562: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Lichenariida - Lyoporidae
Lyopora sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 tabulate coral
Nyctopora billingsi tabulate coral
 Favositida - Agetolitidae
Agetolites minor tabulate coral
Agetolites asiaticus tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Mesofavosites grandis tabulate coral
Mesofavosites sp. Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Mesofavosites pulchrum n. sp. Volkova et al. 1978 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora taimyrica tabulate coral
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Catenipora capilliformis Volkova et al. 1978 tabulate coral
Tollina sp. Sokolov 1949 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge