Tsagaan Del Unit 5. Right bank of Buriduin-Gol River, 4 km NE of Bor-kuduk well: Katian, Mongolia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon microundulatum Nestor 1964
Clathrodictyon vormsiense Riabinin 1951
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Labechiidae
Tuvaechia regularis
synonym of Labechiella
Labechia huronensis Billings 1865
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Rosenellidae
Cystostroma fritzae
Pachystylostroma woyuensis
Pachystylostroma ozakii n. sp. Bolshakova and Ulitina 1985
Anthozoa
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
Anthozoa - Heliolitida
Heliolitida indet. Frech 1897
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites proecedens
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Sibiriolitidae
Mongoliolites paradoxides
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Proheliolitidae
"Proheliolites" ex gr. koskolensis
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma duncani (Dybowski 1873)
Grewingkia anguinea Scheffen 1933
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis latecostata Rozman 1977
Ariunchimeg 2009
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida
Togaella ex gr. salairica
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
nomen dubium belonging to Rhynchonellida
Togaella salairica latecostellata
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena informal sp. nov. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Rozman and Minzhin 1980
see common names

Geography
Country:Mongolia State/province:Bayanhongor
Coordinates: 46.4° North, 100.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.3° North, 20.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Katian Graptolite zone: Dicellograptus complanatus
Age range of interval:453.00000 - 445.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tsagaan Del Member:Middle
Local section:Tsagaan Del Local bed:245 - 248 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Bolshakova and Ulitina 1985 give as unit 5, 30 m thick.

Diyetken stage in Mongolia.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:medium,shelly/skeletal,gray lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: Bolshakova and Ulitina 1985: reef-like limestone lens intercalated in sandstones. Rozman & Minzhin 1980: Dark-gray, medium-grained, compact, coral-brachiopod limestones
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 2668; Tsagan-Del
Database number:79590
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Wagner Enterer:U. Merkel, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-14 03:46:48 Last modified:2015-06-23 13:24:14
Access level:the public Released:2008-03-14 03:46:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26709. 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]

Secondary references:

55569 Y.a. Ariunchimeg. 2009. New Late Ordovician Bryozoans from the Tsagaan-Del Section of Central Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 43(4):401-407 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
55575 K.h. S. Rozman and C.h. Minzhin. 1980. Stratigraphy of the Ordovician Ashgillian Stage of Western Mongolia. International Geology Review 22(5):575-586 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]