Where: Kazakhstan (43.6° N, 69.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 102.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chulaktau Formation, Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)
• bed 4 (3 m thick), Pseudorthotheca costata zone, Aksay and Karatau Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified chert and lithified phosphorite
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 99305: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.11.2010
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Taxonomic list
Hyolithellus rectus Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Pseudorthotheca costata Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981 | |
Protoconodonta | |
Protohertzina siciformis Missarzhevsky 1973 | |
Hyolitha | |
Allatheca sp. Rozanov et al. 1969 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Tiksitheca licis, Anabarites signatus n. sp.
Tiksitheca licis Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
Anabarites signatus n. sp. Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981 jellyfish |