Anderkenyn-Akchoku, Chu-Ili Range, sample 8128a (Ordovician of Kazakhstan)

Where: Kazakhstan (43.9° N, 75.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 13.6° S, 30.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anderken Formation, Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)

• unit 4

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

• BA-2
• fine siltstones and sandstones, usually with traces of bioturbation

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• Bulk collection refers to brachiopods only

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, L. R. M. Cocks, and I. F. Nikitin. 2002. Upper Ordovician brachiopods from the Anderken Formation, Kazakhstan: their ecology and systematics. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 58(1):13-79 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80264: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.04.2008

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Taxonomic list

Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Paracraniops sp. Williams 1963
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Ranorthidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Mabella conferta Popov 1985
Shlyginia fragilis Rukavishnikova 1956
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella rukavishnikovae" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) rukavishnikovae
"Sowerbyella rukavishnikovae" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) rukavishnikovae Popov 1980