Selinde River, bioherm (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3760

Where: Khabarovskiy Kray, Russian Federation (57.4° N, 132.6° E: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 17.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pestrotsvet Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed 47

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• archaeocyath-calcimicrobial bioherm, 0.5 m thick and 1.5-2 m wide

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. N. Repina, Z. V. Borodayevskaya, and V. V. Yermak. 1988. Opornyy razrez po reka Selinde (yugo-vostochnaya okraina Aldanskogo shchita) [Type section of the Selinde River, southeastern margin of the Aldan Shield]. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki, Sibirskoye Otdeleniye 720:3-31 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80876: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida -
Sphinctocyathus oimuranicus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Loculicyathus membranivestites, "Robustocyathus cf. polyseptatus" = Cambrocyathellus
Loculicyathus membranivestites archaeocyath sponge
"Robustocyathus cf. polyseptatus" = Cambrocyathellus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
"Nochoroicyathus sp." = Nochoroicyathus, "Aldanocyathus arteintervallum" = Nochoroicyathus
"Nochoroicyathus sp." = Nochoroicyathus Zhuravleva 1951 archaeocyath sponge
"Aldanocyathus arteintervallum" = Nochoroicyathus archaeocyath sponge
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Fallotaspididae
Fallotaspididae indet. Hupe 1953 trilobite
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886