Lena River, Oy-Muran (Kokoulinsk) bioherm complex, unit 9-10 bioherm 1 (Cambrian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 1745

Where: Yakutiya, Russian Federation (61.0° N, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 13.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• western part of the complex

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. T. Zhuravleva. 1972. Rannekembriyskiye fatsialnyye kompleksy arkheotsiat (r. Lena, sredneye techeniye) [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath complexes (middle Lena River)]. in I. T. Zhuravleva, ed., Problemy biostratigrafii i paleontologii nizhnego kembriya Sibiri [Lower Cambrian biostratigraphical and paleontological problems of Siberia] 31-109 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81213: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.06.2008

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Taxonomic list

Bicyathus
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Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Dictyocyathus cf. salairicus archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra polymorpha archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Loculicyathidae
Loculicyathus membranivestites archaeocyath sponge
"Robustocyathus sp." = Cambrocyathellus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmophyllidae
Ethmophyllum rossicum archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ajacicyathidae
Nochoroicyathus grandis archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus dianthus archaeocyath sponge