Tengiz, platform slope (Carboniferous to of Kazakhstan)

Also known as Reef 487

Where: Kazakhstan (46.2° N, 53.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 38.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Brigantian to Brigantian (336.0 - 323.2 Ma)

• Latest Visean-Serpukhovian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified reef rocks

• microbial and cement boundstones of the slope of the Tengiz platform

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. A. M. Kenter, P. M. Harris, and G. Della Porta. 2005. Steep microbial boundstone-dominated platform margins - examples and implications. Sedimentary Geology 178:5-30 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76894: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Archaediscacea - Lasiodiscidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
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Rhodophyceae
 Calcifoliida - Fasciellidae
 Calcifoliida - Calcifoliaceae
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
 Fenestellida -
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod