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The Vendian (Ediacaran) beds of the Zavkhan Basin, in the upper part of the Tsagaanolom Formation (<632 ± 14 Ma), yielded a new “Zavkhan” association of algae, microfossils, and problematic organisms, which is established in the series of alternating chert-carbonate shale with phosphorite interbeds. This association is distinct in the predomination of large (250 μm and over) sphaeromorphic microfossils of the genera Tasmanites, Archaeooides, and Leiosphaeridia, whereas acanthomorph acritarchs are represented by rarely found Cavaspina sp. and Tanarium sp. Multicellular algae included fragments of encrusting or foliate thalli with pseudoparenchymatous structure of polygonal cells characteristic of Rhodophyta algae (Thallophycoides sp.), and cordlike thalli of Vendotaenid algae Tyrasotaenia podolica. These layers of siltstone contain imprints of the problematic Vendian macrofossil Beltanelliformis brunsae. In their stratigraphic position, chemostratigraphic data, and fossil assemblage, the “Zavkhan” association can be assigned to the Upper Vendian.
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Original Russian Text © A.L. Ragozina, D. Dorjnamjaa, E.A. Serezhnikova, L.V. Zaitseva, B. Enkhbaatar, 2016, published in Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 2016, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 27–37.
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Ragozina, A.L., Dorjnamjaa, D., Serezhnikova, E.A. et al. Association of macro- and microfossils in the Vendian (Ediacaran) postglacial successions in Western Mongolia. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 24, 242–251 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593816030059
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