Northern Pribalkhash (Devonian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (46.8° N, 75.0° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 64.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Besobinsk Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Late Eifelian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. A. Kaplan. 1970. Znacheniye chetyrekhluchevykh korallov dlya stratigrafii devona tsentralnogo Kazakhstana [The significance of tetracorals for the Devonian stratigraphy of central Kazakhstan]. in Zakonomernosti rasprostraneniya paleozoyskikh korallov SSSR [Distribution and sequence of Paleozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (3)87-90 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78841: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
"Stenophyllum sp." = Acanthophyllum, Grypophyllum striatum
"Stenophyllum sp." = Acanthophyllum Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
 Stauriida - Amsdenoididae
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral
 Stauriida - Bethanyphyllidae
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral