Kyrshabakty River, 1345 (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

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: Lejopyge armata trilobite zone, Zhumabai Formation, Zhanaarykian (503.0 - 500.5 Ma)

• sample 1345 from unit VI (91.5-132 m) of the Kyrshabakty River section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified lime mudstone

• outer fan fringe; slope of an isolated carbonate platform known as the Aisha-Bibi sea-mount
• thin-bedded dark gray carbonate mudstone with thin parallel laminated clayish limestone

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 118102: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.10.2011, edited by Marcus Domansky

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Anabolotreta diversa2 Koneva 1986
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
 Lichida - Damesellidae
"Prodamesella quadrata" = Protaitzehoia quadrata1
"Prodamesella quadrata" = Protaitzehoia quadrata1 Resser and Endo 1937 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lisaniidae
Lisaniella elongataformis1 Ergaliev 1980 trilobite
Lisaniella elongata1 Chang 1963 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
 Agnostida - Clavagnostidae
Clavagnostus calensis Rusconi 1950
Clavagnostus repandus Westergard 1930
 Agnostida - Phalacromidae
Lisogoragnostus mictus Peng and Robison 2000
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Pseudophalacroma dubium Whitehouse 1936
"Ptychagnostus aculeatus" = Acidusus aculeatus Angelin 1851
Goniagnostus spiniger Westergard 1931
Lejopyge armata Linnarsson 1869
"Lejopyge calva" = Lejopyge laevigatus Dalman 1828
Myrmecomimus solitarius n. sp. Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Hypagnostus truncatus Brogger 1878
Hypagnostus parvifrons Linnarsson 1869
Hypagnostus brevifrons Angelin 1851
Tomagnostella sulcifera Wallerius 1895
Pseudoperonopsis karatauensis Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Hadragnostus quadratiformis Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008