Where: South Central, Kazakhstan (45.4° N, 73.7° E: paleocoordinates 17.2° S, 71.4° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coronograptus cyphus graptolite zone, Mynaral Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• Redated as late Rhuddanian in: L. Robin M. Cocks and Rong Jia-yu (2007). Earliest Silurian faunal survival and recovery after the end Ordovician glaciation: evidence from the brachiopods. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 98, pp 291-301 doi:10.1017/S175569100807566X

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: argillaceous limestone and nodular, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: VSEGEI

Primary reference: T. L. Modzalevskaya and L. E. Popov. 1995. Earliest Silurian articulate brachiopods from central Kazakhstan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40(4):399-426 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151931: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.10.2013, edited by Mihaela Krause

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