Locality 210. Kurzhaksai section (Ordovician of Kazakhstan)

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

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Unit 8 Member (Uzunbulak Formation), Abereiddian (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)

• Kopaly Substage = lower Llanvirn

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone

• BA3-4
• calcareous sandstone in the upper part of Unit 8

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: O. I. Nikitina, L. E. Popov, R. B. Neuman, M. G. Bassett, and L. E. Holmer. 2006. Mid Ordovician (Darriwilian) brachiopods of South Kazakhstan. In M. G. Bassett, V. K. Deisler (eds.), Studies in Palaeozoic palaeontology 25:145-222 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165559: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Toquimia margiata Nikitina et al. 2006
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Taphrodonta kelleri Nikitina et al. 2006