Kamennye Vorota, Dalnegorsk, Lower Norian (Triassic of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 104

Where: Primorskiy Kray, Russian Federation (44.4° N, 135.4° E: paleocoordinates 48.6° N, 134.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lacian (221.5 - 215.6 Ma)

• Margarosmilia charlyana beds

•JA: originally entered as Norian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• grey and dark-grey massive limestones, biostrome facies

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. A. Punina. 1997. Classification and correlation of Triassic limestones in Sikhote-Alin on the basis of corals. in J. M. Dickins, Z. Yang, H. Yin, S. G. Lucas, S. K. Acharyya, eds., Late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic Circum-Pacific events and their global correlation. World and Regional Geology 10:186-192 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87228: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae
Margarosmilia charlyana Frech 1890 stony coral
Distichomeandra sp. Cuif 1976 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Palaeastraea sp. Kühn 1936 stony coral