Kyrshabakty River, 1361-8 (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.5° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 95.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ivshinagnostus ivshini-Irvingella major trilobite zone, Zhumabai Formation, Sakian (497.0 - 492.8 Ma)

• sample 1361-8 from unit IX (308-350 m) of the Kyrshabakty River section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• outer fan lobe; slope of an isolated carbonate platform known as the Aisha-Bibi sea-mount
• thin bedded dark grey 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 118379: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
"Iwayaspis sp." = Pseudoyuepingia Chien 1961 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Onchonotellus abnormis Ivshin 1956 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Elviniidae
Irvingella sp. Ulrich and Resser 1924 trilobite
Irvingella perfecta Chernysheva 1968 trilobite
Irvingella major Ulrich and Resser 1924 trilobite
 Olenida - Idahoiidae
Maladioidella cf. doylei Shergold 1980 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
 Corynexochida - Kaolishaniidae
Liaotropis tropis Schrank 1975 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Cheilocephalidae
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Diplagnostidae
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Neoagnostus kyrshabactensis n. sp. Ergaliev and Ergaliev 2008