Kujandysai, Chu-Ili Range, sample 7613 (Ordovician of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.9° N, 75.5° E: paleocoordinates 13.7° S, 78.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anderken Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• unit 4

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

• BA-2
• fine siltstones and sandstones, usually with traces of bioturbation

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• Bulk collection refers to brachiopods only

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, L. R. M. Cocks, and I. F. Nikitin. 2002. Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 58(1):13-79 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80269: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.04.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Pionodema opima n. sp. Popov et al. 2002
 Orthida - Phragmorthidae
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis burultasica n. sp. Popov et al. 2002
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Glyptomena onerosa Popov 1980
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella rukavishnikovae" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) rukavishnikovae
"Sowerbyella rukavishnikovae" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) rukavishnikovae Popov 1980
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Shlyginia fragilis Rukavishnikova 1956
Mabella conferta Popov 1985
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae