Sauk Tanga, Madygen village (Cambrian of Kyrgyzstan)

Where: Kyrgyzstan (40.0° N, 70.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 104.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sdzuyella - Aegunaspis trilobite zone, Amgan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• Upper Amgan

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• dark brown to greyish-black bituminous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Geyer, J. S. Peel, M. Streng, S. Voigt, J. Fischer and M. Preuße. 2014. A remarkable Amgan (Middle Cambrian, Stage 5) fauna from the Sauk Tanga, Madygen region, Kyrgyzstan. Bulletin of Geosciences 89(2):375-400 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156378: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Taxa described by different authors of the paper.
Brachiopoda
 Mitrosagophora - Tommotiidae
"Tesella sp." = Kelanella
"Tesella sp." = Kelanella Missarzhevsky 1966
Kutorginata
 Kutorginida - Nisusiidae
? Narynella sp. Andreeva 1987
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
Manasoconus bifrons Geyer et al. 2014
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Dorypyge richthofeniformis Lermontova 1940 trilobite
Kootenia "sp. A" Walcott 1899 trilobite
Olenoides "sp. A" Meek 1877 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Glabrella ventrosa Lermontova 1940 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Agraulidae
? Pseudoeteraspis "sp. A" Chernysheva 1950 trilobite
Palaeoscolecida
 Cricocosmida - Palaeoscolecidae
Cambroctoconus
  -
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872