F-1025. Karatal Section (Ordovician of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (45.3° N, 72.1° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° S, 78.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baigara Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• Tsellnograd stage.

•Formation spans Llandeilo-Caradoc boundary; this should be early Caradoc.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine-grained, brown, gray, green, silty sandstone and nodular, argillaceous limestone

• Siltstones and fine grained sandstones, greyish green and brownish green with several beds and lenses of nodular argillaceous limestones

Size class: macrofossils

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 165647: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Paralenorthis numerosa
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Ishimia ishimensis, Shlyginia cf. declivis
Ishimia ishimensis Nikitin 1974
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Eremotoechia inchoata
Eremotoechia inchoata Popov et al. 2001