116 - West side of Kopalysai Valley (Ordovician of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (44.0° N, 75.2° E: paleocoordinates 13.9° S, 77.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Otar Member (Dulankara Formation), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: coquina

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, I. F. Nitikin, and L. R. M. Cocks. 2000. Late Ordovician brachiopods from the Otar Member of the Chu-Ili Range, south Kazakhstan. Palaeontology 43(5):833-870 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116260: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 06.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Shlyginia extraordinaria Rukavishnikova 1956
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae