Koksu, bed 10 (Cambrian of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.7° N, 69.7° E: paleocoordinates 4.9° N, 102.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Uchbas Member (Chulaktau Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• bed 10 (1 m thick), Bercutia cristata zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified breccia and lithified dolomite

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 326:1-96 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99356: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Bercutia sp. Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Orthothecimorpha
 Circothecida -
Uniformitheca ovaliformis Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Uniformitheca aladzharica Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus vitricus Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Hyolithellus vladimirovae Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella biconvexa Rozanov et al. 1969