Tuvaella dichotomians Community: Llandovery, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Isothoris angaciensis
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Palaeofavosites porosus Sokolov 1951
Mesofavosites akchokkensis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena xyziltchigaensis
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Plectatrypa imbricata (Sowerby and Murchison 1839)
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Tuvaella dichotomians
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Glassiidae
Glassia minuta
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
ex gr. Howellella elegans Muir-Wood 1925
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer radiatus (Sowerby 1834)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus angaciensis
original and current combination Rhynchonella (Stegerhynchus)
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia State/province:Gobi Altai
Coordinates: 44.9° North, 95.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.3° North, 21.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
*Period:Early/Lower Silurian *Epoch:Early/Lower Llandoverian - Middle Llandoverian
Key time interval:Llandovery
Age range of interval:443.80000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified sandy "limestone"
Secondary lithology:gray lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: Gray, sandy, organogenic limestone interbedded with unfossiliferous, gray, dence, flinty limestone
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: A moderately quiet water environment with a reasonably firm bottom.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:occurs with abundant, unstudied trilobites and ostracodes
Metadata
Database number:13188
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:C. Simpson
Modifier:S. Kolbe Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-01-26 13:56:55 Last modified:2011-08-26 10:40:34
Access level:the public Released:2002-01-26 13:56:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4340. K.H. S. Rozman. 1999. Silurian brachiopod communities of Mongolia. in A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson, eds., Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 164-176 [M. Foote/C. Simpson]