Kyrshabakty River, 1360-3 (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.5° N, 70.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 25.4° S, 43.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ivshinagnostus ivshini-Irvingella major trilobite zone, Zhumabai Formation, Sakian (497.0 - 492.8 Ma)

• sample 1360-3 from unit VIII (263-308 m) of the Kyrshabakty River section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified lime mudstone and lithified wackestone

• outer fan lobe; slope of an isolated carbonate platform known as the Aisha-Bibi sea-mount
• wavy-bedded (bioturbated) grey and dark grey lime mudstone and wackestone (detrital limestone), pebble flat breccia of debris flow deposits

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: G. K. Ergaliev and F. G. Ergaliev. 2008. Agnostidy srednego i verkhnego Kembriya Aksayskogo Gosudarstvennogo Geologicheskogo Zakaznika v yushnom Kazakhstane (Kyrshabakty, Malyy Karatau) [Middle and Upper Cambrian Agnostida from the Aksai National Geological Reserve in southern Kazakhstan (Kyrshabakty River, Malyy Karatau Range)] 1-359 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118351: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.10.2011, edited by Marcus Domansky

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Experilingula divulgata2 Koneva and Popov 1983
Notiobolus indefinitus2 Holmer et al. 2001
Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichakephalidae
Paraacidaspis hunanica1 Egorova 1960 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Corynexochus plumula1 Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Trilobagnostus pseudorudis Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
Trilobagnostus convexus Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
Ivshinagnostus ivshini Ergaliev 1980
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae