Baruun Dzerd Mountains, Eastern Gobi (Devonian of Mongolia)

Also known as Reef 3723

Where: Mongolia (45.6° N, 111.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 44.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yushnogobi Member (Shargynul Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• coral-stromatoporoid biostrome

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: T. T. Sharkova. 1981. Siluriiskiye i devonskiye tabulyaty Mongolii [Silurian and Devonian Tabulata of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 14:5-104 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79711: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Oculiporidae
Oculipora angulata tabulate coral
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites dunginensis Sharkova 1981 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Caliapora elegans tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora compacta Tchudinova 1959 tabulate coral
subsp. minima