Aktasty River, western limestone ridge, Baigendzhinian, Aktyubinsk Region (Permian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (50.4° N, 57.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 49.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baigendzhin Formation, Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Upper Baigendzhinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.E. Ruzhentsev

Primary reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy. 1954. Nizhnepermskie svernutye i sognutye Nautiloidei yuzhnogo Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 50:1-150 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116792: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Grypoceratidae
Permodomatoceras trapezoidale Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954
 Nautilida - Scyphoceratidae
Scyphoceras angulatum n. sp. Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954
 Bactritida - Bactritidae
Hemibactrites ellipsoidalis2 Shimanskiy 1954
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Medlicottia orbignyana1 de Verneuil 1845 ammonite
Artinskia artiensis1 Grünewaldt 1860 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Neopronorites permicus1 Tchernow 1907 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Adrianitidae
Crimites krotowi1 Karpinsky 1889 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
Uraloceras fedorowi1 Karpinsky 1889 ammonite
Uraloceras suessi1 Karpinsky 1889 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Metalegoceras sogurense1 Ruzhentsev 1933 ammonite
ssp. razumowskajae
Metalegoceras ajdaralense1 Ruzhentsev 1933 ammonite
Eothinites aktastensis1 Ruzhentsev 1933 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae
Waagenina subinterrupta1 Krotow 1885 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Thalassoceratidae
Thalassoceras gemmellaroi1 Karpinsky 1889 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Popanoceratidae
Popanoceras annae1 Ruzhentsev 1940 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Marathonitidae
"Marathonites (Almites) pressulus n. sp." = Almites pressulus1, Kargalites typicus1
"Marathonites (Almites) pressulus n. sp." = Almites pressulus1 Ruzhentsev 1956 ammonite
Kargalites typicus1 Ruzhentsev 1933 ammonite