Dumba-Khadzhinga, Tsetsegnuur (Ordovician of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (46.6° N, 93.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° N, 24.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tsetseg Member (Khangay Formation), Ashgillian (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• member-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 79587: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Grewingkia parva McLean 1974 horn coral
Streptelasma primum Wedekind 1927 horn coral
Streptelasma ostrogothicum Neuman 1969 horn coral
Streptelasma cyrtum Neuman 1969 horn coral
"Grewingkia altaica" = Brachyelasma altaica Tcherepnina 1960 horn coral
Helicelasma sp. Neuman 1969 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae