Where: Kazakhstan (44.0° N, 75.1° E: paleocoordinates 13.8° S, 78.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: unit 2 Member (Anderken Formation), Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

• Was Caradoc

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

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 80271: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.04.2008

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