Ulaan-Shanda, Dzhinsetu Ula Mountains, Gobi Altai (Ordovician of Mongolia)

Also known as Reef 3358

Where: Mongolia (44.3° N, 99.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 35.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• small coral-stromatoporoid biostromes

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 79596: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Grewingkia anguinea Scheffen 1933 horn coral
Grewingkia parva McLean 1974 horn coral
Streptelasma primum Wedekind 1927 horn coral
Streptelasma ostrogothicum Neuman 1969 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Aulaceratidae
Ludictyon vesiculatum stromatoporoid sponge
 Labechiida - Labechiidae
Stratodictyon columnare stromatoporoid sponge
 Labechiida - Rosenellidae
Pachystylostroma ex gr. fragosum Nestor 1964 stromatoporoid sponge
Cystostroma evenkiense stromatoporoid sponge
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Virgatellidae
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Ensipora erecta, "Fimbriapora firma" = Phaenopora, "Fimbriapora plebeja" = Phaenopora
"Fimbriapora firma" = Phaenopora
"Fimbriapora plebeja" = Phaenopora
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae