Kuzhantay River (Carboniferous of Kazakhstan)

Also known as Kurzhantay

Where: Kazakhstan (50.4° N, 57.5° E: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 44.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• Lower Orenburgian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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 172370: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae
Agathiceras uralicum Karpinsky 1874 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Somoholitidae
Somoholites glomerosus Ruzhentsev 1950 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Schistoceratidae
Paraschistoceras optatum Ruzhentsev 1950 ammonite