Kyrshabakty River, 1355-2 (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.5° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 95.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Innitagnostus inexpectans-Prochuangia trilobite zone, Zhumabai Formation, Sakian (497.0 - 492.8 Ma)

• sample 1355-2 from unit VII (132-263 m) of the Kyrshabakty River section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• outer fan lobe; slope of an isolated carbonate platform known as the Aisha-Bibi sea-mount
• parallel laminated limestone, carbonate turbidite, lime wackestone and packstone of grey and dark grey colour

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 118304: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.10.2011, edited by Marcus Domansky

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Prismenaspis trisulcatus1 Ergaliev 1980 trilobite
Prismenaspis magnus1 Ergaliev 1980 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
 Harpetida - Entomaspididae
Baikadamaspis proprius1 Ergaliev 1980 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Aedotes sp.1 Opik 1967 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Cheilocephalidae
Aksayaspis convexus1 Ergaliev 2001 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Corynexochus plumula1 Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
 Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Protemnites sp.1 Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Olenaspella sp.1 Wilson 1956 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Pseudagnostus communis Hall and Whitfield 1877
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Micromitra sp.2 Meek 1873