Karagaily section, level 9: Serravallian, Kazakhstan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Amnicythere mironovi
Buliminidae
Bulimina aff. leninabadensis
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonion bogdanowichi
Nonion biporus
Elphidiidae
Porosononion martkobi
Elphidium macellum
Elphidium horridum
Rotaliidae
Ammonia ex gr. beccari
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Loxoconcha turgida
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Leptocytheridae
Euxinocythere naviculata
Euxinocythere pseudonaviculata
Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Gadidae
Palimphemus minusculoides (Schubert 1912)
5 specimens
Actinopteri - Atheriniformes - Atherinidae
Atherina gidjakensis (Pobedina 1956)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 44.0° North, 51.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.5° North, 50.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Serravallian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.62000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Konkian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow marl
Lithology description: Marl, mustard-yellow, with thin (0.03–0.07 m) white interlayer of coquina, light grey, friable; thickness 0.2–0.3 m
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: shallow-shelf or nearshore environment
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:174955
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2015-12-01 05:25:31 Last modified:2015-12-01 05:25:31
Access level:authorizer only Released:2016-03-01 05:25:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

57118. A. Bratishko, W. Schwarzhans, B. Reichenbacher, Y. Vernyhorova, and S. Coric. 2015. Fish otoliths from the Konkian (Miocene, early Serravallian) of Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan): testimony to an early endemic evolution in the Eastern Paratethys. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89:839-889 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]