Lingula-Tannuaspis Community, Tuva (Silurian to of Russian Federation)
Where: Russian Federation (51.0° N, 93.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 14.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Pridoli to Pridoli (418.7 - 391.9 Ma)
• Pridolian, Early Devonian. Khondergai Formation, Baital Formation, Tauganteli beds.
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and siltstone
• "Well-preserved and fragmented lingulids...articulated and disarticulated ostracodes...vertebrate scales and plates oriented parallel to bedding...mudcracks...Clearly a BA 1, probably intertidal, and also brackish-estuarine environment, as indicated by lingulids and vertebrates..."
• "...on bedding planes of red colored sandstone and siltstone...mudcracks present..."
Primary reference: E. V. Vladimirskaya and N. P. Kulkov. 1999. Silurian brachiopod communities of Tuva. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 545-548 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote] more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24785: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.08.2002