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3 unusual facts about Angara River


Bajkaloceras

Bajkaloceras is a straight-shelled orthoceroid, and possibly a member of the Intejocerida, from the Angara River basin in central Russia, named by Balashov in 1962.

Intejocerida

Intejocerida is the name given to a group of generally straight shelled nautiloid cephalopods originally found in Lower and Middle Ordovician sediments in the Angara River basin in Russia; defined in the Treatise as an order, and combined there with the Endocerida in the Endoceratoidea.

Pallaseidae

Some species are also found in the Angara River which flows out of Lake Baikal, and one species is distributed throughout Northern Palearctic.


Buryats

Linked also to the Bargas were the Khori-Tumed along the Arig River in eastern Khövsgöl Province and the Angara.


see also

Belaya River

Bolshaya Belaya River, a tributary of the Angara River in Irkutsk Oblast

Bratsky

Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station (Bratskaya GES), a power station on the Angara River, Russia