Where: Kazakhstan (43.6° N, 69.9° E: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 94.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bestogai Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• Sample number 191m. Informal lithostratigraphical unit IV, by Apollonov and Zhemchuzhnikov (in Abdulin et al. 1990). PJW: Should be Bestogai now.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; gray limestone and pebbly breccia

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: L. E. Holmer, L. E. Popov, S. P. Koneva and M. G. Bassett. 2001. Cambrian - early Ordovician brachiopods from Malyi Karatau, the western Balkhash region, and Tien Shan, Central Asia. Special Papers in Palaeontology 65:1-180 [W. Kiessling/M. Domansky]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122829: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Domansky on 06.01.2012

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