80km west of Aktybinsk (=Aktobe) (Jurassic to of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (50.3° N, 56.1° E: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 58.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Callovian to Middle Callovian (164.7 - 157.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by T.N. Smirnova, V.N. Ben'yamovskiy, T.R. Akopov

• Repository: M.V. Lomonosov University of Moscow (MU) Collection No. 139

Primary reference: T. N. Smirnova. 1992. Late Mesozoic Brachiopods of the Caspian Depression and the Russian Platform. Paleontological Journal 26(1):25-35 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154603: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 24.02.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Praecyclothyris derupta n. sp. Smirnova 1992
partly preserved shells
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Minutulirhynchia triangularis n. sp. Smirnova 1992
partly, more rarely fully, preserved shells
Sulciphoria acutimarginata n. sp. Smirnova 1992
variously preserved, mostly complete shells