Zhosaly, Mangyshlak (Cretaceous of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (44.0° N, 52.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 47.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. I. Kuzmicheva. 1987. Verkhnemelovyye i paleogenovyye korally SSSR [Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene corals from the USSR] 1-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86773: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Parasmilia centralis Mantell 1822 stony coral