Where: Kazakhstan (43.5° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° S, 99.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ptychagnostus punctuosus trilobite zone, Aktas Formation, Zhanaarykian (503.0 - 500.5 Ma)

• sample 1465-15 from unit V (10-91.5 m) of the Kyrshabakty River section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified lime mudstone

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 118096: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.10.2011

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