Kyrshabakty River, 1314 (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.5° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 100.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peronopsis ultimus trilobite zone, Amgan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• sample 1314 from unit IV (0-10 m) of the Kyrshabakty River section (Ergaliev 2008)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• "parallel-laminated thin bedded argillaceous carbonate shales of brownish and dark-brownish colour" (Ergaliev 2008)

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: S. N. Koneva. 1990. New Middle Cambrian Acrotretids (Brachiopods) from the Lesser Karatau Range. Paleontological Journal 24(3):45-55 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9973: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 05.02.2001, edited by Uta Merkel and Marcus Domansky

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Zhanatellidae
 Lingulida - Kyrshabaktellidae
Kyrshabaktella certa3 Ushatinskaya and in Pelman 1992
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Aksarinaia triquetra3 Koneva 1992
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Prototreta venusta Koneva 1990
Stilpnotreta tecta Koneva 1990
Linnarssonia captiosa Koneva 1990
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Tonkinella flexa1 trilobite
Tonkinella optima1 trilobite
Tonkinella valida1 Tchernysheva 1962 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Pentagnostus shabaktensis n. sp.2 Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
Peronopsis curtus2 Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
Peronopsis ultimus2 Ergaliev 1980
Peronopsis intermedius2 Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
Peronopsis fallax2 Linnarsson 1869
Peronopsis elongatus2 Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Onymagnostus cuneiformis2 Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
Diplagnostus pseudofloralis n. sp.2 Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
Baltagnostus magnificus n. sp.2 Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008
Baltagnostus rakuroensis2 Kobayashi 1935