Aidaralash Creek, outcrop 8 (Carboniferous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (50.2° N, 57.8° E: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 44.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Upper Orenburgian. Uppermost part of Orenburgian is now part of the Asselian, but reported ammonoids and fusulinids indicate a Gzhelian age for this locality.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the PIN

Primary reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev. 1950. Verkhnekammenouglo'nye Ammonity Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 29:1-223 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172281: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae
Neopronorites carboniferus Ruzhentsev 1949 ammonite
 Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Artinskia irinae Ruzhentsev 1938 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Neoicoceratidae
Eoasianites postconcinnus n. sp. Ruzhentsev 1950 ammonite
Eoasianites vodorezovi Ruzhentsev 1950 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Adrianitidae
Emilites plummeri Ruzhentsev 1941 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Thalassoceratidae
Aristoceras appressum Ruzhentsev 1950 ammonite
Prothalassoceras bashkiricum Ruzhentsev 1950 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Glaphyrites aktubensis n. sp. Ruzhentsev 1950 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Shumarditidae
Shumardites aktubensis n. sp. Ruzhentsev 1950 ammonite