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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stringophyllum admirabile horn coral | |
"Stenophyllum sp." = Acanthophyllum, Grypophyllum striatum
"Stenophyllum sp." = Acanthophyllum Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Grypophyllum striatum horn coral | |
Tabulophyllum cf. rotundum horn coral | |
Multicarinophyllum multicarinatum horn coral | |
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral | |
Bethanyphyllum ex gr. maximum horn coral | |
Thamnophyllum tabulatum horn coral | |
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral |