Kyrshabakty River, 1378-25 (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.5° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.4° S, 94.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudagnostus pseudangustilobus-Acrocephalaspina trilobite zone, Bestogai Formation, Aksaian (492.8 - 491.5 Ma)

• sample 1378-25 from unit X (350-415 m) of the Kyrshabakty River section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified lime mudstone and lithified wackestone

• mid fan distributary channels; slope of an isolated carbonate platform known as the Aisha-Bibi sea-mount
• wavy-bedded (bioturbated) grey and dark grey lime mudstone and wackestone (detrital 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 118394: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.10.2011, edited by Marcus Domansky

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Quadrisonia declivis2 Koneva and Popov 1988
 Acrotretida - Scaphelasmatidae
? Eoscaphelasma delicata2 Holmer et al. 2001
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Trilobagnostus kazachstanicus n. sp. Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
 Agnostida - Phalacromidae
Lisogoragnostus mictus Peng and Robison 2000
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Trilobita
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Acrocephalaspina insueta1 Ergaliev 1980 trilobite