Akshoky Mountains, Akzhal-Aksoran region (Devonian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (48.4° N, 75.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 60.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. A. Kaplan. 1968. Stratigraphic distribution of Givetian and Upper Devonian rugose corals in central Kazakhstan. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, Earth Science Sections 182:78-80 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73197: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
"Neostringophyllum waltheri" = Acanthophyllum (Neostringophyllum)
"Neostringophyllum waltheri" = Acanthophyllum (Neostringophyllum) horn coral
 Stauriida - Endophyllidae
 Stauriida - Bethanyphyllidae
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae