Where: Kazakhstan (43.6° N, 69.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° N, 102.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shabakty Formation, Botomian to Botomian (516.0 - 510.2 Ma)

• bed 15 (5 m thick)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified dolomite

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 99372: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.11.2010

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