Where: Zhambyl Oblysy, Kazakhstan (42.9° N, 71.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.2° N, 103.3° E)

When: Shabakty Formation, Atdabanian to Atdabanian (521.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• PJW: Originally given as Kyr-Shabakty (=Kyrshabakty), but that is much older (Ediacaran - Tommotian). Atdabanian-Botomian rocks here are Shabakty.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified dolomite

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky. 1976. New data on Early Cambrian Monoplacophorans. Paleontological Journal 10(2):234-236 [P. Wagner/K. Koverman/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40047: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 16.06.2004

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