ammonites
Kyrshabakty River, 1346-5 (Cambrian of Kazakstan)

Where: Kazakstan (43.5° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 98.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lejopyge laevigata trilobite zone, Zhumabai Formation, Ayusokkanian (505.0 - 498.5 Ma)

• sample 1346-5 from unit VI (91.5-132 m) of the Kyrshabakty River section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified lime mudstone

• outer fan fringe; slope of an isolated carbonate platform known as the Aisha-Bibi sea-mount
• thin-bedded dark gray carbonate mudstone with thin parallel laminated clayish limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: G. K. Ergaliev and F. G. Ergaliev. 2008. Agnostidy srednego i verkhnego Kembriya Aksayskogo Gosudarstvennogo Geologicheskogo Zakaznika v yushnom Kazakhstane (Kyrshabakty, Malyy Karatau) [Middle and Upper Cambrian Agnostida from the Aksai National Geological Reserve in southern Kazakhstan (Kyrshabakty River, Malyy Karatau Range)] 1-359 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118164: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.10.2011, edited by Marcus Domansky