Kyrshabakty River, 1359-1 (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: Pseudagnostus vastulus-Irvingella tropica trilobite zone, Zhumabai Formation, Sakian (497.0 - 492.8 Ma)

• sample 1359-1 from unit VIII (263-308 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
• 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 118344: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.10.2011, edited by Marcus Domansky

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
Olenaspella consimila1 Ergaliev 1980 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Norwoodiidae
Hardyoides sp.1 Kobayashi 1938 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
 Corynexochida - Cheilocephalidae
Aksayaspis convexus1 Ergaliev 2001 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Corynexochidae
Corynexochus plumula1 Whitehouse 1939 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichakephalidae
Paraacidaspis hunanica1 Egorova 1960 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
 Agnostida -
 Agnostida - Pseudagnostidae
Yongwolagnostus longiformis Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
 Agnostida - Ammagnostidae
"Tentagnostus adchinensis" = Ammagnostus adchinensis
"Tentagnostus adchinensis" = Ammagnostus adchinensis Schrank 1975
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
"Sulcatagnostus trispinus" = Pseudagnostus
Pseudagnostus vastulus Whitehouse 1936
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
Peratagnostus orientalis Lazarenko 1966
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Quadrisonia minor2 Rowell and Henderson 1978
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Notiobolus indefinitus2 Holmer et al. 2001