Locality 156. Kurzhaksai section (Ordovician of Kazakhstan)

Also known as Locality F-129

Where: Kazakhstan (43.9° N, 75.4° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 81.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Unit 3 Member (Uzunbulak Formation), Abereiddian (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)

• Kopaly Substage = lower Llanvirn

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, nodular, gray, argillaceous limestone and gray, green, argillaceous siltstone

• BA2-3
• Beds of dark argillaceous limestones

Size class: macrofossils

• Brachiopods occur usually as scattered articulated shells, sometimes as high-density aggregations in nodular, algal limestone, with lenses of mudstone together with calcareous sponges, stromatoporoids, various trilobites, ostracodes, cephalopods and echinoderms.

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, O. Vinn, and O. I. Nikitina. 2001. Brachiopods of the redefined family Tritoechiidae from the Ordovician of Kazakhstan and South Urals. Geobios 34(2):131-155 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165486: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
""Cordylodus" cf. horridus" = Paroistodus horridus
""Cordylodus" cf. horridus" = Paroistodus horridus Barnes and Poplawski 1984 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
 Prioniodontida - Phragmodontidae
Gothodus sp. Lindström 1955 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Polyplacognathidae
Polyplacognathus sp. Stauffer 1935 conodont
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Tritoechiidae
Pomatotrema fecunda Popov et al. 2001
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Martellia reliqua n. sp. Popov et al. 2001
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Oxostrophomena dubia Rukavishnikova 1956
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania hastata Rukavishnikova 1956
 Strophomenida - Taffiidae
Aporthophyla kasachstanica Rukavishnikova 1956
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Apatomorpha cita Rukavishnikova 1956
Leptellina subquadrata Rukavishnikova 1956
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Taphrodonta rukavishnikovae Nikitina et al. 2006
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clarkellidae
Yangtzeella (Vadimella) igori n. sp. Nikitina et al. 2006
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae
Archaeorthis major n. sp. Nikitina et al. 2006
 Orthida - Orthidiellidae
Tuvinia fasciculata n. sp. Nikitina et al. 2006
Tuvinia spp. on list
 Orthida - Orthidae
Turanorthis kujandensis n. sp. Nikitina et al. 2006
Paralenorthis rgaitensis Nikitina 1985
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Annamitella granulata trilobite
[entered as Anamitella granulata]