Sakkyryr River, Sette Daban Mountains, unit 29 (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3720

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (62.9° N, 138.2° 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)

• 70 m thick, upper Tayakh Suite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral and 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 79575: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites sp. von Waldheim 1813 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Multisoleniidae
Multisolenia formosa tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites moyeroensis tabulate coral
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily