Mally Karatau Range, Uchbas River [Shabakta Suite] (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.1° N, 80.4° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 102.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Shabakta suite, Geres deposit. AGE: Atdabanian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified dolomite

• brown dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: chemical,

• Collection stored in the Institute of Geology, Kirgiz Academy of the Sciences in ""Franze"" cataloged as item No. 06.

Primary reference: A. M. Mambetov. 1972. A new Lower Cambrian hyolithid genus from Mally Karatau (Northwestern Tien Shan). Paleontological Journal 6(2):268-269 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10172: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 22.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Nelegerocornidae
Microcornus parvulus n. gen. n. sp.
Microcornus parvulus n. gen. n. sp. Mambetov 1972
10 specimens