Tuzbair (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (44.0° N, 53.2° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 46.8° 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 86756: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Desmophyllum laxum" = Desmophyllum excavatum
"Desmophyllum laxum" = Desmophyllum excavatum Hagenow 1839 stony coral