ammonites
Western Sayan Range, Stoktysh bioherm (Silurian of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 3690

Where: Tyva, Russian Federation (51.6° N, 90.3° E: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 11.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Stoktysh Formation, Wenlock (428.2 - 422.9 Ma)

• probably Wenlock (Lower Silurian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• small coral-stromatoporoid bioherms

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. I. Naumenko. 1970. Kompleksy rannesiluriyskikh tabulyatomorfnykh korallov zapadnogo Sayana i ikh ekologicheskiye osobennosti [Early Silurian tabulate coral assemblages of the western Sayan region and their ecologic characteristics]. in Zakonomernosti rasprostraneniya paleozoyskikh korallov SSSR [Distribution and sequence of Paleozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (3)60-74 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78717: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.02.2008