Where: Kazakstan (43.6° N, 69.7° E: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 103.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Geress Member (Shabakty Formation), Atdabanian (520.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed 9 (5 m thick), Rhombocorniculum cancellatum zone, Adyshevitheca beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified dolomite and lithified, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky and A. M. Mambetov. 1981. Stratigrafiya i fauna pogranichnykh sloyev Kembriya i Dokembriya Malogo Karatau [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary beds of the Malyy Karatau]. Trudy Ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni Geologicheskiy Institut Akademiya NAUK SSSR 326:1-90 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99318: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.11.2010