Buguchiin-Daba, Sagsay River (Devonian of Mongolia)

Where: Mongolia (48.9° N, 89.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 23.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; 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 79723: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Tienodictyidae
Tienodictyon rarum stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora colliculata stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Flexiostroma buguchiense n. sp. Bolshakova and Ulitina 1985 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Idiostromatidae
Idiostroma cumulus stromatoporoid sponge