Babaata, bed 5 (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.6° N, 69.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 9.5° S, 29.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Geress Member (Shabakty Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed 5 (8 m thick), Rhombocorniculum cancellatum zone, Adyshevitheca beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy dolomite and lithified limestone

• sandy dolomite and limestone, phosphatic limestone

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 99324: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Archaeooides granulatus
  -
"Gaparella porosa" = Archaeooides granulatus
"Gaparella porosa" = Archaeooides granulatus Qian 1977
Heteractinida
 Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Lenastella mucronata, "Lenastella araniformis" = Eiffelia araniformis
Lenastella mucronata Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
"Lenastella araniformis" = Eiffelia araniformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus vladimirovae Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
Hyolithellus vitricus Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
 Calyptoptomatida -
Adyshevitheca adyshevi Mambetov and Repina 1979
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Nelegerocornidae
Microcornus parvulus Mambetov 1972
 Hyolithida - Sulcavitidae
Burithes cf. elongatus Missarzhevskiy 1969
 Pseudoconodontida -
Mongolitubulus squamifer Missarzhevsky 1977