Hoyt Tsenher River, Tögrög (Ordovician of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (47.4° N, 92.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 24.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• limestone lenses

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. N. Bolshakova and L. M. Ulitina. 1985. Stromatoporaty i biostratigrafiya nizhnego paleozoya Mongolii [Stromatoporata and biostratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 27:5-94 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79586: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolitidae indet. Lindström 1876 tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma duncani Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Rectigrewingkia anthelion Dybowski 1873 horn coral
"Grewingkia altaica" = Brachyelasma altaica Tcherepnina 1960 horn coral
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805