Ulan Obo Mountains, Baruun-Urt, Eastern Gobi (Devonian of Mongolia)

Also known as Reef 3722

Where: Mongolia (46.7° N, 113.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 39.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gedinnine (416.0 - 412.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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 79718: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Atelodictyidae
Atelodictyon toschemkense stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Gerronostroma concentricum stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora dybowskii stromatoporoid sponge