Also known as Reef 3728
Where: Mongolia (46.3° N, 93.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 22.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Khulmunuur Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• lower part of the formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: T. T. Sharkova. 1981. Siluriiskiye i devonskiye tabulyaty Mongolii [Silurian and Devonian Tabulata of Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditisiya [Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition] 14:5-104 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79716: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Protopteridium | |
Protopteridium sp. Krejci 1880 | |
Hostinella | |
"Hostimella sp." = Hostinella
"Hostimella sp." = Hostinella Barrande 1882 | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporella javorskyi stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatoporella ex gr. artyschtensis stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Placocoenites medius tabulate coral | |
Alveolites edwards, Alveolites distinctus, Alveolites (Alveolitella) praeclara, Crassialveolites abramovi, Tyrganolithes altaicus
Alveolites edwards tabulate coral
Alveolites distinctus tabulate coral
Alveolites (Alveolitella) praeclara tabulate coral
Crassialveolites abramovi tabulate coral
Tyrganolithes altaicus tabulate coral | |
Gracilopora clara tabulate coral
Cladopora vermicularis tabulate coral | |
Pachyfavosites abnormis, Pachyfavosites alpenensis, Emmonsia emmonsi, Emmonsia taltiensis, Squameofavosites mixtus
Pachyfavosites alpenensis tabulate coral
Emmonsia emmonsi tabulate coral
Emmonsia taltiensis tabulate coral
Squameofavosites mixtus tabulate coral | |
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral | |
Sulcorphyllum tonchilum horn coral
Thamnophyllum aff. tabulatum horn coral
"Pseudoacervularia altaica" = Phillipsastrea horn coral | |
"Stenophyllum sp." = Acanthophyllum
"Stenophyllum sp." = Acanthophyllum Dybowski 1873 horn coral | |
Altaiophyllum mongolicum horn coral | |
Crinoidea | |
Pentagonocyclicus cf. astericus Sea lily | |
Hexacrinites aff. cauliculatus Sea lily
Hexacrinites cf. karzevae Sea lily | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops altaicus" = Paciphacops altaicus
"Phacops altaicus" = Paciphacops altaicus Tschernyschev 1893 trilobite |