Imankara (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Atyrau, Kazakhstan (47.5° N, 54.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 47.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Verkhnemelovyye i paleogenovyye korally SSSR [Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene corals from the USSR] 1-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86699: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Cyathoceras embaensis n. sp. Kuzmicheva 1987 stony coral