Where: Siberia, Russian Federation (60.0° N, 118.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° N, 5.6° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Loparskii Formation, Tremadoc (488.3 - 478.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and siltstone

Collection methods: JA: marked by Novack-Gottshall without explanation as omitting some genera, some macrofossils, some microfossils, and species names, but apparently complete

Primary reference: A. V. Kanygin et al. 1989. Ordovician siberian Platform: Fauna and stratigraphy of the Lena Facial Zone; Novosibirski; Nauka Sib. Birch. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki Vypusk Akademiya Nauk SSSR (in Russian) 751:1-216 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9284: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.10.2000