Where: Kazakhstan (43.4° N, 70.2° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 102.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Karatau Member (Chulaktau Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)
• bed 4 (35-40 m thick), Pseudorthotheca costata zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite and lithified dolomite
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky and A. M. Mambetov. 1981. Stratigrafiya i fauna pogranichnykh sloyev Kembriya i Dokembriya Malogo Karatau [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary beds of the Malyy Karatau]. Trudy Ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni Geologicheskiy Institut Akademiya NAUK SSSR 326:1-96 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99321: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2010
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Taxonomic list
Protoconodonta | |
Protohertzina siciformis Missarzhevsky 1973 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Tiksitheca licis Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
Anabarites signatus Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981 jellyfish | |
Pseudorthotheca costata Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Hyolithellus rectus Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Hyolithellus vladimirovae Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966 |