Aksay, bed 4b (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.4° N, 70.2° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 102.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Karatau Member (Chulaktau Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• bed 4 (35-40 m thick), Pseudorthotheca costata zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite and lithified dolomite

• phosphorite with dolomite and limestone interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky and A. M. Mambetov. 1981. Stratigrafiya i fauna pogranichnykh sloyev Kembriya i Dokembriya Malogo Karatau [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary beds of the Malyy Karatau]. Trudy Ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni Geologicheskiy Institut Akademiya NAUK SSSR 326:1-96 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99321: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Tiksitheca licis, Anabarites signatus
Tiksitheca licis Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
Anabarites signatus Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981 jellyfish
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Pseudorthotheca costata, Hyolithellus rectus, Hyolithellus vladimirovae
Pseudorthotheca costata Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Hyolithellus rectus Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Hyolithellus vladimirovae Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
Protoconodonta
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Protohertzina siciformis
Protohertzina siciformis Missarzhevsky 1973