Dolnapa Section Bed 7 (Triassic of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (44.4° N, 51.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 49.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tartalinskaya Formation, Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Kiparisovites carinatus-Tirolites cassianus Zone

Environment/lithology: marine; lenticular, gray, green, calcareous siltstone

• Greenish-grey siltstone with calcareous boulders and

•lenses (15 cm) of limestone 11 m.

Primary reference: Y. D. Zakharov and A. M. Popov. 2007. Examples of Late Olenekian invertebrate successions: Paper 1. Western Tethys (Dolnapa, Mangyshlak). Albertiana 35:46-51 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72327: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 01.06.2007, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
"Fletcherithyris margaritovi" = Bittnerithyris margaritovi
"Fletcherithyris margaritovi" = Bittnerithyris margaritovi Bittner 1899
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tirolitidae
Tirolites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Dinaritidae
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam